NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs AMD Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M AMD Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock967MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (26W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M +441%

2.599 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition

0.48 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

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Radeon HD 6630M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 800M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

-

967 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

1344

Shading Units

480

112

TMUs

24

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Whistler

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Whistler LP

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

26W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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