Radeon HD 7870 and GeForce 9300M GS DDR2 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7870
GeForce 9300M GS DDR2
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
G98
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
June 2008
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-I
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
580 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
8
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
13 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
2.320
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
800 MBps
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
6.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Portable Device Dependent
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A