AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8860 OEM and 64MB VRAM GeForce2 Ultra 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 12 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 7.360GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 8860 OEM

VS

GeForce2 Ultra

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Aug 2000

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 2

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 4x

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

230 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

64MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

7.360GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.000 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

NV15

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

GeForce2 Ultra

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Celsius

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

180 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.025 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

88 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

7.0

4.6

OpenGL

1.5

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

-

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