NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800M GTS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock967MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M +1524%

2.599 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800M GTS

0.16 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

GeForce 8800M GTS

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 800M

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-HE

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

-

967 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

-

Compute Units

-

1344

Shading Units

64

112

TMUs

32

24

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

160.0 GFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

G92

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

NB8E-GT-A2

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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