GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q vs Radeon HD 7870

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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-10079
Cost-effectiveness evaluation3.00no data
Power efficiency4.71no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code namePitcairnGA107
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date5 March 2012 (12 years ago)17 December 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$349 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 cores12802048
Core clock speed1000 MHz832 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1155 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt30 Watt
Texture fill rate80.0073.92
Floating-point processing power2.56 TFLOPS4.731 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs8064
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data32

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 3.0 x8
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/s96 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 DVI, 1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a
Eyefinity+-
HDMI++

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-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 March 2012 17 December 2021
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 28 nm 8 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 30 Watt

RTX 2050 Max-Q has an age advantage of 9 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 250% more advanced lithography process, and 483.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 7870 and GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 7870 is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 2050 Max-Q is a notebook one.


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