AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

  • 2.2x more texture fill rate: 68 GTexel / s vs 30.94 GTexel / s
  • 4.2x more pipelines: 1600 vs 384
  • 3.7x better floating-point performance: 2,720 gflops vs 742.7 gflops
  • Around 5% higher memory clock speed: 4200 MHz vs 4012 MHz
Texture fill rate 68 GTexel / s vs 30.94 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1600 vs 384
Floating-point performance 2,720 gflops vs 742.7 gflops
Memory clock speed 4200 MHz vs 4012 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M

  • Around 11% higher core clock speed: 941 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 3.5x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 175 Watt
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
Core clock speed 941 MHz vs 850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 175 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 1 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M

Name AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M
PassMark - G3D Mark 1330
PassMark - G2D Mark 244
Geekbench - OpenCL 4256
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 15.67
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 251.09
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.144
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 10.872
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 13.423
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2351
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3520
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3334
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2351
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3520
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3334
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 461

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M

Essentials

Architecture TeraScale 2 Kepler
Code name Cypress GK107
Launch date 14 January 2013 9 January 2013
Place in performance rating not rated 1172
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 850 MHz 941 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,720 gflops 742.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 1600 384
Texture fill rate 68 GTexel / s 30.94 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 175 Watt 50 Watt
Transistor count 2,154 million 1,270 million
Boost clock speed 967 MHz

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 282 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin
Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size medium sized

API support

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 API
OpenGL 4.4 4.5
OpenCL 1.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 134.4 GB / s 64.19 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 4200 MHz 4012 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR3, GDDR5
Shared memory 0
Standard memory configuration DDR3 / GDDR5

Technologies

3D Vision
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
Blu-Ray 3D Support
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus