NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

AMD Radeon HD 7870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q 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 GTX 1080 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1468MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q +633%

7.516 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Max Q

VS

Radeon HD 7870M

Graphics Card

Jun 2017

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1290 MHz

Base Clock

-

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

20

SM Count

-

2560

Shading Units

640

160

TMUs

40

64

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

93.95 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

234.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

117.4 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.516 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

234.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

150W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Heathrow

N17E-G3-A1

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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