AMD Radeon HD 8570 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Oland Pitcairn
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 950 million 2,800 million
Die size 77 mm² 212 mm²
GPU variant Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Graphics Card

Release date Jan 8th, 2013 Jan 8th, 2013
Generation Sea Islands Sea Islands
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Predecessor Southern Islands Southern Islands
Successor Volcanic Islands Volcanic Islands

Clocks

Base clock 730 MHz
Boost clock 780 MHz
Memory clock 900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective 1200 MHz 4.8 Gbps effective
GPU clock 1000 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 2 GB 2 GB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR5
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 28.80 GB/s 153.6 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 384 1280
TMUs 24 80
ROPs 8 32
Compute units 6 20
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 256 KB 512 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 6.240 GPixel/s 32.00 GPixel/s
Texture rate 18.72 GTexel/s 80.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 599.0 GFLOPS 2.560 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 37.44 GFLOPS (1:16) 160.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Dual-slot
TDP 50 W 175 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI1x VGA 1x DVI1x HDMI2x mini-DisplayPort
Power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Board number C552 C401
Length 241 mm 9.5 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.2
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader model 5.1 5.1

Other Features

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