GeForce RTX 4080 Ti vs Radeon HD 7870 XT

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking407not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.48no data
Power efficiency4.52no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ada Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameTahitiAD102
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date19 November 2012 (11 years ago)2023 (1 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$270 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores153614080
Core clock speed925 MHz2340 MHz
Boost clock speed975 MHz2610 MHz
Number of transistors4,313 million76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)185 Watt400 Watt
Texture fill rate93.601,148
Floating-point processing power2.995 TFLOPS73.5 TFLOPS
ROPs32144
TMUs96440
Tensor Coresno data440
Ray Tracing Coresno data110

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length267 mm336 mm
Width2-slot3-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 16-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR6X
Maximum RAM amount2 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1325 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s678.4 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 5 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 185 Watt 400 Watt

HD 7870 XT has 116.2% lower power consumption.

RTX 4080 Ti, on the other hand, has a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 460% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7870 XT and GeForce RTX 4080 Ti. We've got no test results to judge.


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