NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 160M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8870M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock775MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 160M

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M +416%

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 160M

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Radeon HD 8870M

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 100M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

725 MHz

-

Boost Clock

775 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.40 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.00 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

992.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

62.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Venus

N10E-GS1

GPU Variant

Venus XT (216-0846000)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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