Radeon HD 7870 and Quadro FX 3800 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 vs Quadro FX 3800
Radeon HD 7870
4779
Quadro FX 3800
821
Radeon HD 7870
Quadro FX 3800
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
GT200B
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
March 2012
March 2009
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
462.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
1,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
192
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
108 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
38.40
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.3
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A