AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM vs AMD Radeon R7 250 OEM

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Pitcairn Oland
GPU variant Pitcairn XT (215-0828047) Oland XT (215-0837000)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 1.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 2,800 million 950 million
Die size 212 mm² 77 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jan 8th, 2013 Oct 8th, 2013
Generation Sea Islands Volcanic Islands
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
Predecessor Southern Islands Sea Islands
Successor Volcanic Islands Pirate Islands
Reviews 24 in our database

Clocks

GPU clock 1000 MHz
Memory clock 1200 MHz 4.8 Gbps effective 1000 MHz 2 Gbps effective
Base clock 1000 MHz
Boost clock 1050 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 2 GB 2 GB
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 153.6 GB/s 32.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

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

Performance

Pixel rate 32.00 GPixel/s 8.400 GPixel/s
Texture rate 80.00 GTexel/s 25.20 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 2.560 TFLOPS 806.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 160.0 GFLOPS (1:16) 50.40 GFLOPS (1:16)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Dual-slot
Length 241 mm 9.5 inches
TDP 175 W 65 W
Suggested PSU 450 W 250 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI2x mini-DisplayPort 1x DVI1x HDMI1x VGA
Power connectors 2x 6-pin None
Board number C401 C550, C552

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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