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

nvidia
Brand24GB GDDR6X
Memory10752
Cores1010 GB/s
BandwidthNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
$349 • Mar 2012
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
$1999 • Jan 2022
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti

Specs Comparison
Specification | AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti |
---|---|---|
Memory Size | 2 GB | 24 GB |
Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6X |
TDP | 175 W | 450 W |
Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
Boost Clock | N/A | 1860 MHz |
Memory Bandwidth | 153.6 GB/s | 1010 GB/s |
Process Size | 28nm | 8nm |
Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Ampere |
Shading Units | 1280 | 10752 |
RT Cores | N/A | 84 |
TMUs | 80 | 336 |
ROPs | 32 | 112 |
Memory Bus | 256-bit | 384-bit |
Memory Clock | 1200 MHz | 1313 MHz |
Pixel Rate | 32 GPixel/s | 208.3 GPixel/s |
Texture Rate | 80 GTexel/s | 625 GTexel/s |
FP32 Performance | 2.56 GFLOPS | 40 GFLOPS |
L2 Cache | 0.50 MB | 6.00 MB |
Die Size | 212 mm² | 628 mm² |
Transistors | 2800 Million | 28300 Million |
Required PSU | 450 W | 850 W |
Power Connectors | 2x 6-pin | 1x 16-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 3090 Ti


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 3090 Ti


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 3090 Ti


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 3090 Ti
Game Benchmarks Comparison
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Wins!
Based on 4 synthetic benchmarks

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
AMD • 2GB GDDR5

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
NVIDIA • 24GB GDDR6X
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