NVIDIA NVS 4200M vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

VS

NVIDIA NVS 4200M

AMD Radeon HD 7870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM NVS 4200M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA NVS 4200M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 45W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

592 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

NVS 4200M

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M +556%

1.024 TFLOPS

NVS 4200M

VS

Radeon HD 7870M

Graphics Card

Feb 2011

Release Date

Apr 2012

NVS Mobile

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

640

8

TMUs

40

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.620 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

6.480 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

-

155.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

12.96 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Heathrow

N12P-NS1-S-A1

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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