AMD Radeon Pro V520 vs AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

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AMD Radeon Pro V520 AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro V520 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro V520 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (175W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro V520 +188%

7.373 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

2.56 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro V520

VS

Radeon HD 8870 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Jan 2013

Radeon Pro

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

20

2304

Shading Units

1280

144

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

230.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

14.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.373 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

460.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 12

GPU Name

Pitcairn

Navi 12

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.8 billion

Unknown

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

225W

TDP

175W

550 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

No outputs

Outputs

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

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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