AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M and 256MB VRAM GeForce Go 6800 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8870M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock775MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 8870M

VS

GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Feb 2005

Solar System

Generation

GeForce Go 6

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

-

775 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

-

40

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

-

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

89W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

NV41

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

GO6800 U

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

N/A

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

3.0

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