Radeon HD 8870 OEM vs GeForce GTX 760 Ti OEM

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking368not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.72no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 1.0 (2011−2020)
GPU code nameGK104Pitcairn
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date27 September 2013 (11 years ago)8 January 2013 (11 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores13441280
Core clock speed915 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed980 MHzno data
Number of transistors3,540 million2,800 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)170 Watt175 Watt
Texture fill rate109.880.00
Floating-point processing power2.634 TFLOPS2.56 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs11280

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length241 mm241 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin2x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1502 MHz1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.3 GB/s153.6 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
HDMI++

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (11_1)
Shader Model5.15.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.21.2
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 27 September 2013 8 January 2013
Power consumption (TDP) 170 Watt 175 Watt

GTX 760 Ti OEM has an age advantage of 8 months, and 2.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 760 Ti OEM and Radeon HD 8870 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Ti OEM
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