AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 8870M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 225% (2520MHz vs 775MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile +1200%

12.9 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

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GeForce RTX 5050 Mobile

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2025

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 50 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

2235 MHz

775 MHz

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

640

Shading Units

2560

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

80

-

RT Cores

20

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

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Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.64 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

201.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

12.90 TFLOPS

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

12.90 TFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

201.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

115W

-

Suggested PSU

300 W

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

GB207

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

GB207

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

0

1.5 billion

Transistors

Unknown

123 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

10.1

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

6.8

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