Radeon HD 7870 and GeForce RTX 2080 Super - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce RTX 2080 Super
Radeon HD 7870
4779
GeForce RTX 2080 Super
20173
Radeon HD 7870
GeForce RTX 2080 Super
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
Turing TU104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
July 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1815 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
1650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
13,600 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
3072
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
348.5
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
15500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
495.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
VR Ready
-
+