AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8870M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock775MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 60.00GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M +66%

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560M

0.595 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

VS

GeForce GTX 560M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

May 2011

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

-

775 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

625 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

60.00GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

640

Shading Units

192

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.80 GTexel/s

-

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

595.2 GFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

49.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

GF116

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

N12E-GS-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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