AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 11 month(s) later
  • 14.8x more texture fill rate: 80 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
  • Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 800 MHz
  • 34.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4626 vs 134
  • Around 76% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 591 vs 335
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 5 March 2012 vs 22 March 2006
Texture fill rate 80 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 4626 vs 134
PassMark - G2D Mark 591 vs 335

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
4626
134
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
591
335
Name AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS
PassMark - G3D Mark 4626 134
PassMark - G2D Mark 591 335
Geekbench - OpenCL 77430
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 55.446
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 952.668
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 4.68
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 64.456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 294.215
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1651

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition NVIDIA GeForce 7650 GS

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 Curie
Code name Pitcairn G73
Design AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch date 5 March 2012 22 March 2006
Launch price (MSRP) $349
Place in performance rating 476 479
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1000 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,560 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 1280
Stream Processors 1024
Texture fill rate 80 GTexel / s 5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 177 million
Core clock speed 450 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 241 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 11 9.0c
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 153.6 GB/s 12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz 800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR2

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
FreeSync