AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA Switch 2 GPU
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Mar 2012
Jun 2025
Generation
Southern Islands
Console GPU
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
800 MHz
Base Clock
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561 MHz
Boost Clock
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1400 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
12GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
LPDDR5X
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
102.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
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Shading Units
1280
1536
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
SM Count
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12
Tensor Cores
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48
RT Cores
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12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
22.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
80.00 GTexel/s
67.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.560 TFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
160.0 GFLOPS
2.150 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
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8.602 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Pitcairn
GA10B
GPU Variant
Pitcairn XT(215-0828047)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
Unknown
Die Size
212 mm²
200 mm²
Board Design
TDP
175W
40W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.8
CUDA
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8.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.