Radeon RX 480 vs Radeon HD 7870

  AMD

Developer

  AMD

  Radeon RX 480

Model

  Radeon HD 7870

  -

benchmarks
Total performance

  35.1

  Polaris(Polaris)

Architecture

  GCN(Pitcairn XT)

  14

Process, nm

  28

  -

Release year

  2012

  2304

Shaders

  1280

  -

Core frequency

  1000

  -

Shaders frequency

  1000

  GDDR5

Memory type

  GDDR5

  -

Memory frequency

  4800

  256

Memory bus

  256

  12

DirectX

  11.1

  -

OpenGL

  4.2

 

    System device ids

     

    • 1002 6818
    • 1002 679E

     

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