NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs AMD Radeon R9 M295X

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

AMD Radeon R9 M295X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Boost Clock967MHz

Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 M295X 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M295X +13%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

Radeon R9 M295X

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Nov 2014

GeForce 800M

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

-

967 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

1344

Shading Units

2048

112

TMUs

128

24

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.14 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.54 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.961 TFLOPS

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.961 TFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

185.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

250W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

Amethyst

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Amethyst XT

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

5 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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