AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8860 OEM and 1280MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470 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 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 133.9GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (175W vs 215W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8860 OEM +117%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470

1.089 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 470

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Mar 2010

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

837 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1280MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

320bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

133.9GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

448

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

40

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

640 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.02 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.05 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1089 GFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GF100

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

GF100-275-A3

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

215W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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