
amd
Brand2GB GDDR5
Memory1280
Cores153.6 GB/s
BandwidthAMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

nvidia
Brand8GB GDDR6
Memory5888
Cores448 GB/s
BandwidthNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
$349 • Mar 2012
GeForce RTX 3070
$499 • Aug 2020
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Specs Comparison
Specification | AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 |
---|---|---|
Memory Size | 2 GB | 8 GB |
Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6 |
TDP | 175 W | 220 W |
Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
Boost Clock | N/A | 1725 MHz |
Memory Bandwidth | 153.6 GB/s | 448 GB/s |
Process Size | 28nm | 8nm |
Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Ampere |
Shading Units | 1280 | 5888 |
RT Cores | N/A | 46 |
TMUs | 80 | 184 |
ROPs | 32 | 96 |
Memory Bus | 256-bit | 256-bit |
Memory Clock | 1200 MHz | 1750 MHz |
Pixel Rate | 32 GPixel/s | 165.6 GPixel/s |
Texture Rate | 80 GTexel/s | 448 GTexel/s |
FP32 Performance | 2.56 GFLOPS | 20.31 GFLOPS |
L2 Cache | 0.50 MB | 4.00 MB |
Die Size | 212 mm² | 392 mm² |
Transistors | 2800 Million | 17400 Million |
Required PSU | 450 W | 550 W |
Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | 1x 12-pin |
Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
DirectX | 11.1 | 12.2 |
Vulkan | N/A | 1.3 |
OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
Foundry | TSMC | Samsung |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks


3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070


Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070


GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070


PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
AMD • 2GB GDDR5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
NVIDIA • 8GB GDDR6
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