Radeon 780M vs HD 8870 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated298
Place by popularitynot in top-10047
Power efficiencyno data85.04
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code namePitcairnHawx Point
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date8 January 2013 (11 years ago)6 December 2023 (less than a year 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 cores1280768
Core clock speed1000 MHz800 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2700 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 million25,390 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate80.00129.6
Floating-point processing power2.56 TFLOPS8.294 TFLOPS
ROPs3232
TMUs8048
Ray Tracing Coresno data12

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 4.0 x8
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1200 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model5.16.8
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 8 January 2013 6 December 2023
Chip lithography 28 nm 4 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 15 Watt

Radeon 780M has an age advantage of 10 years, a 600% more advanced lithography process, and 1066.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8870 OEM and Radeon 780M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8870 OEM is a desktop card while Radeon 780M is a notebook one.


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AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM
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