AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

NVIDIA A30 PCIe

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1440MHz

More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2304 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (165W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

2.56 TFLOPS

A30 PCIe +303%

10.32 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

VS

A30 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Apr 2021

Sea Islands

Generation

Tesla Ampere

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

930 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1440 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1215 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

24GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2e

256bit

Memory Bus

3072bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

933.1GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

56

1280

Shading Units

3584

80

TMUs

224

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

224

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

192 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

24 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

138.2 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

322.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

10.32 TFLOPS

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

10.32 TFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

5.161 TFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

165W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

8-pin EPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GA100

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

54.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

826 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

N/A

4.6

OpenGL

N/A

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

8.0

5.1

Shader Model

N/A

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