NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 56 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 210W)

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1250MHz vs 967MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 56 +244%

8.96 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 56

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Aug 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

1138 MHz

967 MHz

Boost Clock

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

786 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

192bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

402.4GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

56

-

1344

Shading Units

3584

112

TMUs

224

24

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.00 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

280.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

17.92 TFLOPS

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.960 TFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

560.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

210W

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Vega 10

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

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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