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Radeon HD 7870 vs Radeon HD 7870 XT

Intro

The Radeon HD 7870 features a core clock frequency of 1000 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1200 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1280 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 7870 XT, which has core clock speeds of 925 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 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

As far as performance goes, the Radeon HD 7870 XT should in theory be quite a bit better 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 will be a small bit (about 11%) better at texture 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

The Radeon HD 7870 should be a little bit (about 8%) more effective at AA than the Radeon HD 7870 XT, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (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.

Price Comparison

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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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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