Radeon HD 7870 and GeForce3 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 vs GeForce3
Radeon HD 7870
4779
GeForce3
4
Radeon HD 7870
GeForce3
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Kelvin (2001−2003)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
NV20 A5
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
February 2001
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
57 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
-
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
80.00
1.600
Memory type
GDDR5
SDR
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
64 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
230 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
3.68 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x VGA, 1x DB13W3
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
8.0
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A