Radeon HD 7870 and GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7870
GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
GA107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
December 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Boost clock speed
-
1155 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
73.92
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
12 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3