AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1038MHz vs 775MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M +167%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Oct 2014

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

775 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1280

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

-

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

GM204

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

398 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 (6.4)

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs AMD Radeon R7 M465

2

AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce 820M

3

AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

4

AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4850 Mac Edition

5

AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX450 30.5W 10Gbps

6

AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670MX

7

AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

8

AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 56

9

AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs AMD Radeon R7 M460

10

AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs AMD Radeon HD 7510M

Related News

1

Intel's Entry-Level CPU Core Ultra 3 205 Spotted: Only One Model Available

2

Introducing the AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX: A First Look at the Flagship Gaming Laptop CPU

3

AMD's Thunderous Strike: Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance Scores Revealed for the First Time!

4

Continuous Decline in DRAM Memory Prices: Downward Trend Intensifies

5

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

6

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

7

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

8

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

9

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

10

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production