NVIDIA NVS 300 vs AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM NVS 300 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8860 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA NVS 300 's Advantages

Lower TDP (18W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

NVS 300

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM +5971%

2.368 TFLOPS

NVS 300

VS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2013

NVS

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

790 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.64GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

2

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

16

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.080 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

4.160 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

39.36 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

Curacao

GT218-670-B1

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

18W

TDP

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DMS-59

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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