GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal) vs Radeon HD 8860 OEM

GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
Memory: 12288Mb GDDR5XDESKTOP
Release date: 2 Aug 2016
GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
Radeon HD 8860 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8860 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8860 OEM

75 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal) .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)Radeon HD 8860 OEM
GPU NameGP102 (GP102)vsCuracao (Curacao PRO)
Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
Die Size471 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors12,000 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders3584vs1280
Compute Units28vs20
Core clock1417 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs96vs32
TMUs224vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)Radeon HD 8860 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5XvsGDDR5
Bus Width384 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1251 MHz
10008 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size12288 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)Radeon HD 8860 OEM
TDP250 wattsvs175 watts
Release Date2 Aug 2016vs8 Jan 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
    136.00 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8860 OEM
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
    317.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8860 OEM
    74.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
    480.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8860 OEM
    179.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX TITAN X (Pascal)
    10157.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8860 OEM
    2368.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better