AMD Radeon E8870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

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AMD Radeon E8870 NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8870 +1451%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 9700M GT

0.099 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870

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GeForce 9700M GT

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jul 2008

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.000 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

99.20 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

G96

Saturn PRO

GPU Variant

NB9E-GE

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

45W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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