NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 945A

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 945A and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 945A 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 53% (1189MHz vs 775MHz)

AMD Radeon HD 8870M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 40.10GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 945A

0.913 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M +8%

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce 945A

VS

Radeon HD 8870M

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 900A

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

725 MHz

1189 MHz

Boost Clock

775 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

40.10GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

-

384

Shading Units

640

24

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.512 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.40 GPixel/s

28.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.00 GTexel/s

-

913.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

992.0 GFLOPS

28.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

33W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

Venus

-

GPU Variant

Venus XT (216-0846000)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.5 billion

Unknown

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M

2

NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs AMD Radeon R9 M375

3

NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs AMD Radeon Pro 560

4

NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4350

5

NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs AMD Radeon HD 7670M Rebrand

6

NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs NVIDIA GeForce MX570

7

NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs AMD Radeon HD 8730A

8

NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile

9

NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5850

10

NVIDIA GeForce 945A vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Max-Q

Related News

1

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

2

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

3

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

4

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

5

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

6

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

7

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

8

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

9

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

10

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption