NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

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NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS AMD Radeon HD 7870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9650M GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 45W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9650M GS

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M +1180%

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce 9650M GS

VS

Radeon HD 7870M

Graphics Card

Mar 2008

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 9M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

32

Shading Units

640

16

TMUs

40

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

5.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

80.00 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G84

GPU Name

Heathrow

NB9P-GS1-A2

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.289 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

169 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

29W

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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