AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8860 OEM and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 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 6 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 175W)

Score

Radeon HD 8860 OEM

VS

Quadro FX 550

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Apr 2006

Sea Islands

Generation

Quadro FX Curie

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.440 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.880 GTexel/s

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

NV43

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

NV43 GL

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

110 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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