AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8870 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).

AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM

Around 18% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 850 MHz
Around 14% lower typical power consumption: 175 Watt vs 200 Watt

Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 850 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	175 Watt vs 200 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Around 30% higher texture fill rate: 103.6 GTexel / s vs 80 GTexel / s
Around 40% higher pipelines: 1792 vs 1280
Around 29% better floating-point performance: 3,315 gflops vs 2,560 gflops
Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2 GB
Around 4% higher memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 4800 MHz

Texture fill rate	103.6 GTexel / s vs 80 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1792 vs 1280
Floating-point performance	3,315 gflops vs 2,560 gflops
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed	5000 MHz vs 4800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM	AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark		2793
PassMark - G2D Mark		366
Geekbench - OpenCL		13791
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 8870 OEM	AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Pitcairn	Tahiti
Launch date	8 January 2013	8 January 2013
Place in performance rating	not rated	722
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,560 gflops	3,315 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	1280	1792
Texture fill rate	80 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	2x 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	153.6 GB / s	240.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	5000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5