AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8860 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 134.4GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 X2

2.016 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM +17%

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

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Radeon HD 8860 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Jan 2013

Northern Islands

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

20

-

1120

Shading Units

1280

56

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

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2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

300W

TDP

175W

700 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

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

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

Curacao

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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