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Radeon HD 7870 vs Radeon R9 380X

Intro

The Radeon HD 7870 comes with core clock speeds of 1000 MHz on the GPU, and 1200 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1280 SPUs as well as 80 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 380X, which comes with a core clock speed of 970 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1425 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 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 R9 380X 9519 points
Radeon HD 7870 6230 points
Difference: 3289 (53%)

Ethereum Mining Hash Rate

Radeon R9 380X 19 Mh/s
Radeon HD 7870 16 Mh/s
Difference: 3 (19%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 7870 175 Watts
Radeon R9 380X 190 Watts
Difference: 15 Watts (9%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 380X should theoretically be a small bit superior to the Radeon HD 7870 in general. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X 182400 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7870 153600 MB/sec
Difference: 28800 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 380X should be quite a bit (about 55%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 7870. (explain)

Radeon R9 380X 124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7870 80000 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 44160 (55%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon HD 7870 is the winner, though only just barely. (explain)

Radeon HD 7870 32000 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380X 31040 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 960 (3%)

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 R9 380X
Manufacturer AMD AMD
Year March 2012 November 2015
Code Name Pitcairn XT Tonga XT
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1000 MHz 970 MHz
Memory Speed 4800 MHz 5700 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 175 watts 190 watts
Bandwidth 153600 MB/sec 182400 MB/sec
Texel Rate 80000 Mtexels/sec 124160 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 32000 Mpixels/sec 31040 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 1280 2048
Texture Mapping Units 80 128
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Bus Width 256-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 28 nm
Transistors 2800 million 5000 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.1 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.2 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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