Radeon HD 7870 and GeForce RTX 4090 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce RTX 4090
Radeon HD 7870
4779
GeForce RTX 4090
39777
Radeon HD 7870
GeForce RTX 4090
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
AD102-300-A1
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
September 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 16-pin
Boost clock speed
-
2520 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
2235 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
76,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
16384
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
450 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
1,290
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
24 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
21000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
1,008 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.9
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3