AMD Radeon HD 6870M vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870M

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870M and 256MB VRAM GeForce Go 6800 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 35.20GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 50W)

Score

Radeon HD 6870M

VS

GeForce Go 6800

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Nov 2004

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce Go 6

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-III

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

550 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

35.20GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

-

40

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

27.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.600 GTexel/s

-

1080 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Granville

GPU Name

NV41

Granville XT (216-0769024)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

130 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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