NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs AMD Radeon Pro 580

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M AMD Radeon Pro 580

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon Pro 580 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1200MHz vs 967MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (217.0GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 580 +112%

5.53 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

Radeon Pro 580

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Jun 2017

GeForce 800M

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

967 MHz

Boost Clock

1200 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1695 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

217.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

1344

Shading Units

2304

112

TMUs

144

24

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.40 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

172.8 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.530 TFLOPS

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.530 TFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

345.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Ellesmere

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Ellesmere XTA (216-0886220)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

185W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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