Radeon HD 7870 and GeForce GTX 470 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce GTX 470
Radeon HD 7870
4779
GeForce GTX 470
3199
Radeon HD 7870
GeForce GTX 470
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
GF100
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
April 2010
Bus support
-
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
Two 6-pins
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
607 MHz
CUDA cores
-
448
Floating-point performance
-
1,088.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
3,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
448
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
225 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
80.00
34.0 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1280 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
320 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
1674 MHz (3348 data rate)
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
133.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Two Dual Link DVIMini HDMI
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A