Radeon E8870 PCIe vs RX 6300 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameNavi 24Saturn
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)29 September 2015 (9 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 cores1024768
Core clock speedno data1000 MHz
Boost clock speed2500 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)100 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate160.048.00
Floating-point processing power5.12 TFLOPS1.536 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs6448

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 4.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 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 typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed16 GB/s1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth128.0 GB/s96 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 Connectors1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort4x DisplayPort 1.2
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.66.5 (6.0)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.1
Vulkan1.21.2.170

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 7 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 100 Watt 75 Watt

RX 6300 XT has a 300% more advanced lithography process.

E8870 PCIe, on the other hand, has 33.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6300 XT and Radeon E8870 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX 6300 XT is a desktop card while Radeon E8870 PCIe is a notebook one.


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