AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs AMD Radeon RX 6800S

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AMD Radeon HD 8870M

AMD Radeon RX 6800S

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800S to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6800S 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 171% (2100MHz vs 775MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800S +767%

8.602 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

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Radeon RX 6800S

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2022

Solar System

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

1800 MHz

775 MHz

Boost Clock

2100 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

32

-

640

Shading Units

2048

40

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

64

-

RT Cores

32

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

L3 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

134.4 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

268.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

17.20 TFLOPS

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.602 TFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

537.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

Navi 23

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

11.06 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

237 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

2.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.5

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