AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 8870M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M OEM 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1085MHz vs 775MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 860M OEM +40%

1.389 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

VS

GeForce GTX 860M OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Feb 2015

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

1020 MHz

775 MHz

Boost Clock

1085 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

640

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.36 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1389 GFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

43.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

GM107

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

N15P-GX-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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