Radeon HD 7870 and Mobility Radeon 9000 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7870
Mobility Radeon 9000
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
M9
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
March 2012
September 2002
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
-
Boost clock speed
-
240 MHz
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
1 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
36 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
5
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
80.00
0.96
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
3.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
8.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
1.4
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A