AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs ATI Mobility Radeon X1700

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AMD Radeon HD 8870M

ATI Mobility Radeon X1700

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M and 256MB VRAM Mobility Radeon X1700 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8870M 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock775MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 8870M

VS

Mobility Radeon X1700

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Feb 2006

Solar System

Generation

M6x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

-

775 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

-

40

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.900 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.900 GTexel/s

-

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

M66

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

M66-P (216BGCKC13FG)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

N/A

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

3.0

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