Radeon HD 8870 OEM vs Radeon HD 8860 OEM

Radeon HD 8870 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8870 OEM
Radeon HD 8860 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8860 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8870 OEM

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8860 OEM

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 8870 OEMRadeon HD 8860 OEM
GPU NamePitcairn (Pitcairn XT)vsCuracao (Curacao PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors2,800 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders1280vs1280
Compute Units20vs20
Core clock1000 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs80vs80

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8870 OEMRadeon HD 8860 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8870 OEMRadeon HD 8860 OEM
TDP175 wattsvs175 watts
Release Date8 Jan 2013vs8 Jan 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8870 OEM
    32.00 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8860 OEM
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8870 OEM
    80.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8860 OEM
    74.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8870 OEM
    154.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8860 OEM
    179.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8870 OEM
    2560.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8860 OEM
    2368.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better