AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM vs AMD FirePro D500

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM and 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 274W)

AMD FirePro D500 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (243.8GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870 OEM +14%

2.56 TFLOPS

FirePro D500

2.227 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

VS

FirePro D500

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jan 2014

Sea Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

243.8GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

24

1280

Shading Units

1536

80

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

69.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.227 TFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

556.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Tahiti

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE GL

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

Board Design

175W

TDP

274W

450 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

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

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 1x SDI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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