Radeon HD 7870 and FirePro D500 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 7870

FirePro D500

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

Pitcairn XT

Tahiti

Market segment

Desktop

Workstation

Release date

March 2012

January 2014

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

2x 6-pin

-

Core clock speed

1000 MHz

725 MHz

Floating-point performance

-

2,227 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

2800 Million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

1536

Power consumption (TDP)

175 Watt

274 Watt

Texture fill rate

80.00

69.60

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

5080 MHz

Memory bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

243.8 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI

Eyefinity

+

-

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