NVIDIA RTX A5000-12Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2021
Nov 2012
Generation
Quadro Ampere
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1170 MHz
925 MHz
Boost Clock
1695 MHz
975 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
12GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
256bit
Bandwidth
768.0GB/s
192.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
64
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Shading Units
8192
1536
TMUs
256
96
ROPs
96
32
Tensor Cores
256
—
RT Cores
64
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
6 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
162.7 GPixel/s
31.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
433.9 GTexel/s
93.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
27.77 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
27.77 TFLOPS
2.995 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
433.9 GFLOPS
748.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA102
Tahiti
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
28.3 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
352 mm²
GPU Variant
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Tahiti LE(215-0821122)
Board Design
TDP
230W
185W
Suggested PSU
550 W
450 W
Outputs
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
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Shader Model
6.7
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.