AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jan 2013
Mar 2025
Generation
Sea Islands
GeForce 50
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1750 MHz
Base Clock
-
2325 MHz
Boost Clock
-
2512 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
2GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR7
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
672.0GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
6144
TMUs
80
192
ROPs
32
80
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
48 MB
SM Count
-
48
Tensor Cores
-
192
RT Cores
-
48

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
201.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
80.00 GTexel/s
482.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.560 TFLOPS
30.87 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
160.0 GFLOPS
482.3 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
30.87 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Pitcairn
GB205
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT(215-0828047)
GB205-300-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Blackwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
5 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
31.1 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
263 mm²

Board Design

TDP
175W
250W
Suggested PSU
450 W
600 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.4
Shader Model
5.1
6.8
CUDA
-
12.0

📊 Benchmark

3DMark Time Spy
-
22,544
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
-
10,789
3DMark Speed Way
-
5,896
Blender
-
6,218