AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

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AMD Radeon HD 8870M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660M 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 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 23% (950MHz vs 775MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M +35%

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660M

0.73 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

VS

GeForce GTX 660M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Mar 2012

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

835 MHz

775 MHz

Boost Clock

950 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

384

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.600 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.40 GTexel/s

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992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

729.6 GFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

30.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

GK107

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

N13E-GE-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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