NVIDIA GeForce RTX 6090 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2027
Nov 2012
Generation
GeForce 60
Southern Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
2300 MHz
925 MHz
Boost Clock
2700 MHz
975 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
32GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR7
GDDR5
Memory Bus
512bit
256bit
Bandwidth
1.79TB/s
192.0GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
192
-
Shading Units
24576
1536
TMUs
768
96
ROPs
192
32
Tensor Cores
768
-
RT Cores
192
-
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
96 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
24
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
518.4 GPixel/s
31.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
2073.6 GTexel/s
93.60 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
132.7 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
132.7 TFLOPS
2.995 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
2.074 TFLOPS
748.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GR202
Tahiti
GPU Variant
GR202-300-A1
Tahiti LE(215-0821122)
Architecture
Rubin
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
3 nm
28 nm
Transistors
Unknown
4.313 billion
Die Size
Unknown
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
525W
185W
Suggested PSU
900 W
450 W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b3x DisplayPort 2.1b
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 16-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
1.4
1.2
CUDA
12.0
-
Shader Model
6.9
5.1