Radeon HD 8870 OEM vs Radeon R9 380

Radeon HD 8870 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8870 OEM
Radeon R9 380
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R9 380

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 380

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 380

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 380

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 8870 OEMRadeon R9 380
GPU NamePitcairn (Pitcairn XT)vsAntigua (Antigua PRO)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size212 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistors2,800 millionvs5,000 million
Shaders1280vs1792
Compute Units20vs28
Core clock1000 MHzvs970 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs80vs112

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8870 OEMRadeon R9 380
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8870 OEMRadeon R9 380
TDP175 wattsvs190 watts
Release Date8 Jan 2013vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8870 OEM
    32.00 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    31.04 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8870 OEM
    80.00 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    108.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8870 OEM
    154.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    176.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8870 OEM
    2560.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 380
    3476.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better