AMD Radeon E8870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

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AMD Radeon E8870 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8870 +310%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M

0.374 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870

VS

GeForce GTX 280M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Mar 2009

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-IV

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

128

48

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.360 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

374.5 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

G92

Saturn PRO

GPU Variant

N10E-GTX

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

-

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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