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Radeon HD 7870 vs Radeon HD 7870 XT

Intro

The Radeon HD 7870 features a clock frequency of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1200 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It features 1280 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 7870 XT, which has GPU core speed of 925 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM running at 1500 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 1536 SPUs, 96 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

Radeon HD 7870 XT 6390 points
Radeon HD 7870 6230 points
Difference: 160 (3%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon HD 7870 16 Mh/s
Radeon HD 7870 XT 15 Mh/s
Difference: 1 (7%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7870 175 Watts
Radeon HD 7870 XT 185 Watts
Difference: 10 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon HD 7870 XT should be quite a bit faster than the Radeon HD 7870 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 XT 192000 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7870 153600 MB/sec
Difference: 38400 (25%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 7870 XT is a small bit (approximately 11%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 7870. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 XT 88800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7870 80000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 8800 (11%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7870 is the winner, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 32000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7870 XT 29600 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 2400 (8%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

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Specifications

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Model Radeon HD 7870 Radeon HD 7870 XT
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year March 2012 November 2012
Code Name Pitcairn XT Tahiti LE
Memory 2048 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 1000 MHz 925 MHz
Memory Speed 4800 MHz 6000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 175 watts 185 watts
Bandwidth 153600 MB/sec 192000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 80000 Mtexels/sec 88800 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 32000 Mpixels/sec 29600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1280 1536
Texture Mapping Units 80 96
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2800 million 4313 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.1 DirectX 11.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.2 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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