AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 7950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8860 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 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 late

Lower TDP (175W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 179.2GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8860 OEM

2.368 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 +21%

2.867 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM

VS

Radeon HD 7950

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2012

Sea Islands

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

28

-

1280

Shading Units

1792

80

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

89.60 GTexel/s

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.867 TFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

200W

450 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

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

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

Tahiti

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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