Radeon HD 7870 and Quadro NVS 440 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870 vs Quadro NVS 440
Radeon HD 7870
4779
Quadro NVS 440
38
Radeon HD 7870
Quadro NVS 440
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
NV43 A4
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
March 2012
February 2006
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
146 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
-
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
31 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
2.000
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
2x DMS-59
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A