AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM and AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

  • Around 9% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • Around 14% lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 200 Watt
  • Around 12% higher memory clock speed: 5600 MHz vs 5000 MHz
Core clock speed 925 MHz vs 850 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt vs 200 Watt
Memory clock speed 5600 MHz vs 5000 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

  • Around 40% higher texture fill rate: 103.6 GTexel / s vs 74 GTexel / s
  • Around 40% higher pipelines: 1792 vs 1280
  • Around 40% better floating-point performance: 3,315 gflops vs 2,368 gflops
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2 GB
Texture fill rate 103.6 GTexel / s vs 74 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1792 vs 1280
Floating-point performance 3,315 gflops vs 2,368 gflops
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 2 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Name AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark 2785
PassMark - G2D Mark 364
Geekbench - OpenCL 13773
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 40.311
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 795.334
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.328
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 64.205
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 181.508
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4396
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3348
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4396
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3348

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Essentials

Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 1.0
Code name Curacao Tahiti
Launch date 8 January 2013 8 January 2013
Place in performance rating not rated 720
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 925 MHz 850 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,368 gflops 3,315 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1280 1792
Texture fill rate 74 GTexel / s 103.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt 200 Watt
Transistor count 2,800 million 4,313 million
Boost clock speed 925 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 241 mm 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin 2x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_1) 12.0
OpenGL 4.5 4.6

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 179.2 GB / s 240.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 5600 MHz 5000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

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