AMD Radeon E8870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

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AMD Radeon E8870

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680M 's Advantages

Boost Clock758MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8870

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680M +32%

2.038 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870

VS

GeForce GTX 680M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jun 2012

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

719 MHz

-

Boost Clock

758 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

1344

48

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.22 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.90 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.038 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

84.90 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GK104

Saturn PRO

GPU Variant

N13E-GTX-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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