Radeon HD 7870 and Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition - video card comparison
Radeon HD 7870
Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name
Pitcairn XT
R580+
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2012
January 2007
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
670 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
2800 Million
384 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
-
Power consumption (TDP)
175 Watt
125 Watt
Texture fill rate
80.00
10.72
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
2100 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
67.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
1x DVI, 1x VHDCI
Eyefinity
+
-
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
9.0c (9_3)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
Shader Model
5.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A