AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 965M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1150MHz vs 775MHz)

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

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 965M +137%

2.355 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

VS

GeForce GTX 965M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2016

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

935 MHz

775 MHz

Boost Clock

1150 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

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1024

40

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

36.80 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

73.60 GTexel/s

-

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.355 TFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

73.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

GM206S

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

N16E-GR-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.7

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