AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

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AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X 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 180W)

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

2.56 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X +5%

2.688 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Oct 2013

Sea Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

20

1280

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Curacao

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

180W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

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

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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