NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs AMD Radeon HD 6990M Rebrand

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M AMD Radeon HD 6990M Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6990M Rebrand to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock967MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 70.40GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M +103%

2.599 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990M Rebrand

1.28 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

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Radeon HD 6990M Rebrand

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jul 2011

GeForce 800M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

-

967 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1100 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

70.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

1344

Shading Units

800

112

TMUs

40

24

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1280 GFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Broadway

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Broadway XTX

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

100W

-

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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