Radeon HD 7870 XT and Radeon Sky 500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 XT vs Radeon Sky 500
Radeon HD 7870 XT
4603
Radeon Sky 500
4906
Radeon HD 7870 XT
Radeon Sky 500
Architecture
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Tahiti
Pitcairn
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2012
March 2013
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
975 MHz
-
Core clock speed
925 MHz
950 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,995 gflops
2,432 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
93.60
76.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
154 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DisplayPort
DisplayPort count
-
1
Dual-link DVI support
-
1
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131