NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M AMD Radeon HD 7870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M 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 860M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1085MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 860M +35%

1.389 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 860M

VS

Radeon HD 7870M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 800M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1020 MHz

Base Clock

-

1085 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

80.19GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

640

Shading Units

640

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

17.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

43.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1389 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

43.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Heathrow

N15P-GX-A1

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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