AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 XT 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1226MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (150W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

2.56 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 XT +71%

4.394 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

VS

Radeon RX 560 XT

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Mar 2019

Sea Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1074 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1226 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/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

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

39.23 GPixel/s

80.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

137.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.394 TFLOPS

2.560 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.394 TFLOPS

160.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

274.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

175W

TDP

150W

450 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

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

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 LE1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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