Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM vs AMD Radeon Pro 580

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2013 Jun 2017
Generation Sea Islands Radeon Pro Mac
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1200 MHz 1695 MHz
Base Clock 1100 MHz
Boost Clock 1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 153.6GB/s 217.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20 36
Shading Units 1280 2304
TMUs 80 144
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 32.00 GPixel/s 38.40 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 80.00 GTexel/s 172.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.560 TFLOPS 5.530 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 160.0 GFLOPS 345.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 5.530 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Pitcairn Ellesmere
GPU Variant Pitcairn XT(215-0828047) Ellesmere XTA(216-0886220)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 5.7 billion
Die Size 212 mm² 232 mm²
Board Design
TDP 175W 185W
Suggested PSU 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 No outputs
Power Connectors 2x 6-pin None
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader Model 5.1 6.4