Radeon HD 7870 and GeForce 7800 GTX - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce 7800 GTX
Radeon HD 7870
4779
GeForce 7800 GTX
299
Radeon HD 7870
GeForce 7800 GTX
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
G70
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
June 2005
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
430 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
302 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
-
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
86 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
10.32
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
38.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A