NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M AMD Radeon HD 8870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M 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 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280M

0.374 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M +165%

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M

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Radeon HD 8870M

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Apr 2013

GeForce 200M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-IV

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

725 MHz

-

Boost Clock

775 MHz

950 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

128

Shading Units

640

64

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.360 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.40 GPixel/s

37.44 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

374.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

992.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

62.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Venus

N10E-GTX

GPU Variant

Venus XT (216-0846000)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

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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