AMD Radeon HD 6870M vs NVIDIA NVS 4200M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6870M

NVIDIA NVS 4200M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870M and 1024MB VRAM NVS 4200M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870M 's Advantages

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

752 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 4200M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870M +592%

1.08 TFLOPS

NVS 4200M

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870M

VS

NVS 4200M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Feb 2011

Vancouver

Generation

NVS Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

800

Shading Units

48

40

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

27.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

1080 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Granville

GPU Name

GF119

Granville XT (216-0769024)

GPU Variant

N12P-NS1-S-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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