amd
Brand2GB GDDR5
Memory1536
Cores192 GB/s
BandwidthAMD Radeon HD 7870 XT
nvidia
Brand24GB GDDR6X
Memory10752
Cores1010 GB/s
BandwidthNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT
Radeon HD 7870 XT
$270 • Nov 2012
GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
$1999 • Jan 2022
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
Specs Comparison
| Specification | AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 2 GB | 24 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR6X |
| TDP | 185 W | 450 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 975 MHz | 1860 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 192 GB/s | 1010 GB/s |
| Process Size | 28nm | 8nm |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Ampere |
| Shading Units | 1536 | 10752 |
| RT Cores | N/A | 84 |
| TMUs | 96 | 336 |
| ROPs | 32 | 112 |
| Memory Bus | 256-bit | 384-bit |
| Memory Clock | 1500 MHz | 1313 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 31.2 GPixel/s | 208.3 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 192 GTexel/s | 625 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 2.995 GFLOPS | 40 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 0.50 MB | 6.00 MB |
| Die Size | 352 mm² | 628 mm² |
| Transistors | 4313 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 XT
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 XT
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 XT
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 XT
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 XT
AMD • 2GB GDDR5
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
NVIDIA • 24GB GDDR6X
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