Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Jan 2013 Aug 2016
Generation Sea Islands GeForce 10 Mobile
Type Desktop Mobile
Bus Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1200 MHz 1251 MHz
Base Clock 1556 MHz
Boost Clock 1734 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5X
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 153.6GB/s 320.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20
Shading Units 1280 2560
TMUs 80 160
ROPs 32 64
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache 512 KB 2 MB
SM Count 20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 32.00 GPixel/s 111.0 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 80.00 GTexel/s 277.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.560 TFLOPS 8.878 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 160.0 GFLOPS 277.4 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 138.7 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Pitcairn GP104
GPU Variant Pitcairn XT(215-0828047) N17E-G3-A1
Architecture GCN 1.0 Pascal
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Process Size 28 nm 16 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 7.2 billion
Die Size 212 mm² 314 mm²
Board Design
TDP 175W 150W
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_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
Shader Model 5.1 6.4
CUDA 6.1