GeForce RTX 5060 vs Radeon HD 8870 OEM

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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
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Blackwell 2.0 (2025)
GPU code namePitcairnGB206
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date8 January 2013 (11 years ago)2025

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 cores12804608
Core clock speed1000 MHz2235 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2520 MHz
Number of transistors2,800 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology28 nm0 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt170 Watt
Texture fill rate80.00362.9
Floating-point processing power2.56 TFLOPS23.22 TFLOPS
ROPs3248
TMUs80144
Tensor Coresno data144
Ray Tracing Coresno data36

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 5.0 x16
Length241 mmno data
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 16-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 typeGDDR5GDDR7
Maximum RAM amount2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/s355.0 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 DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
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
OpenCL1.23.0
Vulkan1.2.1311.3
CUDA-10.1

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 170 Watt

RTX 5060 has a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and 2.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8870 OEM and GeForce RTX 5060. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 8870 OEM
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