NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs AMD Radeon HD 8550M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M AMD Radeon HD 8550M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8550M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (967MHz vs 850MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M +377%

2.599 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8550M

0.544 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

Radeon HD 8550M

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jul 2014

GeForce 800M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

650 MHz

967 MHz

Boost Clock

850 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

1344

Shading Units

320

112

TMUs

20

24

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

544.0 GFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Sun

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Sun S3 LE (216-0841036)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.1

Vulkan

1.2.170

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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