AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition and NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE 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 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
• 18.5x more texture fill rate: 80 GTexel / s vs 4.32 GTexel / s
• 160x more pipelines: 1280 vs 8
• 123.1x better floating-point performance: 2,560 gflops vs 20.8 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
• 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
• Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 800 MHz
• 56.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 4619 vs 82
• Around 72% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 590 vs 344

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	4619 82
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	590 344

Compare specifications (specs)