AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 670MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8870M 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock775MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 67.20GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 670MX +16%

1.154 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

VS

GeForce GTX 670MX

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Oct 2012

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

-

775 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

67.20GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

960

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

24

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.02 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.08 GTexel/s

-

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1154 GFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

48.08 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

GK104

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

N13E-GR-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

294 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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