Radeon E8860 vs Radeon R9 380

If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon E8860 and Radeon R9 380, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Radeon E8860 stacks up against Radeon R9 380, check out specs charts below.

Main Specs

  Radeon E8860 Radeon R9 380
Power consumption (TDP) 37 Watt 190 Watt
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 2 x 6-pin
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Display Connectors 4x mini-DisplayPort 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
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  • Radeon R9 380 has 413% more power consumption, than Radeon E8860.
  • Both video cards are using PCIe 3.0 x16 interface connection to a motherboard.
  • Radeon R9 380 has 2 GB more memory, than Radeon E8860.
  • Both cards are used in Desktops.
  • Radeon E8860 is build with GCN 1.0 architecture, and Radeon R9 380 - with GCN.
  • Radeon E8860 and Radeon R9 380 are manufactured by 28 nm process technology.
  • Memory clock speed of Radeon E8860 is 3530 MHz higher, than Radeon R9 380.

Game benchmarks

high / 1080p 7−8 35−40
ultra / 1080p 4−5 21−24
QHD / 1440p 0−1 16−18
4K / 2160p 10−11
low / 720p 18−20 60−65
medium / 1080p 9−10 40−45
The average gaming FPS of Radeon R9 380 in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 310% more, than Radeon E8860.

Full Specs

  Radeon E8860 Radeon R9 380
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN
Code name Venus Tonga Pro
Type Desktop Desktop
Release date 25 January 2014 26 June 2015
Pipelines 640 1792
Core clock speed 575 MHz
Boost Clock 625 MHz 970 MHz
Transistor count 1,500 million 5,000 million
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Texture fill rate 25.00 108.6
Floating-point performance 800.0 gflops 3,476 gflops
Length 221 mm
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 4500 MHz 970 MHz
Memory bandwidth 72 GB/s 182.4 GB/s
Shared memory -
DirectX 12 (11_1)
Shader Model 5.1 6.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
OpenCL 1.2 2.0
Vulkan 1.2.131 +
Monero / XMR (CryptoNight) 0.48 kh/s
FreeSync +
Bus support PCIe 3.0
HDMI +
Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 48 Mh/s 404 Mh/s
Eyefinity +
HD3D +
PowerTune +
TrueAudio +
ZeroCore +
Mantle +
Design reference
Bridgeless CrossFire +
Number of Eyefinity displays 6
DisplayPort support +
CrossFire +
VCE +
DDMA audio +
Decred / DCR (Decred) 0.66 Gh/s
Ethereum / ETH (DaggerHashimoto) 18 Mh/s
Zcash / ZEC (Equihash) 168.45 Sol/s
Compute units 28
Form factor full height / full length / dual slot
High bandwidth memory (HBM) -
LiquidVR +
FRTC +
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