Radeon HD 8870 OEM Overview
Summary
Data interpolated by architecture, based on benchmarks charts.
The Radeon HD 8870 OEM is a graphics card released by AMD on 8 Jan 2013. The graphics card houses the Pitcairn die, based on the AMD_GCN_1_0 architecture which packs 2,800 million transistors on a 28 nm, 212 mm2 die.
Radeon HD 8870 OEM pros and cons |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Compared to similar performing cards
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| Radeon HD 8870 OEM | Radeon R9 380 |
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| Shader units | 1280 | 1792 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| Graphics processor | Pitcairn | Antigua |
| Process size | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Memory | 2048 Mb GDDR5 (1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective) | 2048 Mb GDDR5 (1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective) |
| Memory bus width | 256 bit | 256 bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 154.00 Gb/s | 176.00 Gb/s |
| Release date | 8 Jan 2013 | 18 Jun 2015 |