AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870 OEM +4%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

2.46 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

VS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Nov 2015

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1176 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1201 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.43 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.86 GTexel/s

-

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.460 TFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

76.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

No outputs

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

GM206

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

GTX 960 OEM

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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