Radeon E8870 Overview

Radeon E8870
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 29 Sep 2015
Radeon E8870

Core Configuration

GPU Saturn
Architecture AMD_GCN_1_1
Shaders : TMUs : ROPs 768 : 48 : 16
Raytracing Cores none
Performance 1536.00 GFLOPs

Memory Configuration

Memory Size 4096 Mb
Memory Bus Width 128 bit
Memory Speed 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Bandwidth 96.00 Gb/s

Summary

Relative performance

  • Radeon HD 8970M
    100%
  • Radeon E9260 MXM
    99%
  • Radeon E9260 PCIe
    99%
  • Radeon R9 M470X
    97%
  • Radeon R9 M385X
    97%
  • Radeon HD 7970M
    94%
  • GeForce GTX 680M
    89%
  • Radeon R9 M385
    89%
  • Radeon R9 M280X
    89%
  • GeForce GTX 960M
    86%
  • GeForce GTX 970M
    84%
  • GeForce 945M
    80%
  • GeForce GTX 860M
    80%
  • GeForce GTX 950M
    78%
  • Radeon R9 M470
    76%
  • Radeon E8870
    76%
  • Radeon R9 M380
    76%
  • GeForce GTX 850M
    70%
  • GeForce GTX 965M
    67%
  • GeForce 940M
    64%
  • GeForce GTX 965M Rev. 2
    62%
  • GeForce GTX 770M
    62%
  • GeForce GTX 765M
    56%
  • Radeon R9 M375
    56%
  • Radeon R9 M375X
    56%
  • GeForce GTX 670MX
    53%
  • GeForce GTX 675MX
    53%
  • GeForce 945M
    52%
  • GeForce 940MX DDR3
    52%
  • Radeon R9 M365X
    51%

Data interpolated by architecture, based on benchmarks charts.

The Radeon E8870 is a graphics card released by AMD on 29 Sep 2015. The graphics card houses the Saturn die, based on the AMD_GCN_1_1 architecture which packs 2,080 million transistors on a 28 nm, 160 mm2 die.

Radeon E8870 pros and cons

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications



Specifications


Compared to similar performing cards

Radeon E8870Radeon HD 8970M
Radeon E8870Radeon HD 8970M
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Shader units7681280
ROPs1632
Graphics processorSaturnNeptune
Process size28 nm28 nm
Memory4096 Mb GDDR5 (1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective)
4096 Mb GDDR5 (1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective)
Memory bus width128 bit256 bit
Memory bandwidth96.00 Gb/s153.60 Gb/s
Release date29 Sep 201514 May 2013