NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs AMD Radeon R7 M260X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

AMD Radeon R7 M260X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 M260X 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 35% (967MHz vs 715MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 M260X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M +373%

2.599 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M260X

0.549 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

Radeon R7 M260X

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Dec 2015

GeForce 800M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

620 MHz

967 MHz

Boost Clock

715 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

6

-

1344

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

24

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.720 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.16 GTexel/s

-

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

549.1 GFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Opal

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Opal PRO

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

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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