NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

64 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1011MHz vs 967MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

Lower TDP (65W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

2.588 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

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Radeon Pro WX Vega M GL

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Apr 2018

GeForce 800M

Generation

Vega

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

IGP

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

931 MHz

967 MHz

Boost Clock

1011 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

192bit

Memory Bus

1024bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

1344

Shading Units

1280

112

TMUs

80

24

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.35 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.88 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

2.588 TFLOPS

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.588 TFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

161.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Polaris 22

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

VegaM MGL XL

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

5 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

208 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

65W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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