AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

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AMD Radeon HD 8870M

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8870M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock775MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M +275%

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

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GeForce GTS 260M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jun 2009

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

-

775 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

640

Shading Units

96

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

38W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

GT215

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

N10E-GS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

4.1

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