AMD Radeon HD 8670M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8670M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M 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 8670M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
• 2x more pipelines: 384 vs 192
• Around 6% better floating-point performance: 633.6 gflops vs 595.2 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1536 MB
• Around 44% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1250 MHz
• Around 87% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 488 vs 261
• Around 12% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 5532 vs 4924
• Around 62% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 71.696 vs 44.123

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

• Around 25% higher texture fill rate: 24.8 billion / sec vs 19.8 GTexel / s
• 2.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1261 vs 520
• 2.1x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 13.598 vs 6.559
• 2.8x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 404.618 vs 144.131
• Around 29% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 1.227 vs 0.952
• Around 44% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 25.333 vs 17.551
• Around 79% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 1857 vs 1039
• Around 84% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3275 vs 1783
• Around 47% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3341 vs 2270
• Around 79% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 1857 vs 1039
• Around 84% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3275 vs 1783
• Around 47% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3341 vs 2270

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8670M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	520 1261
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	488 261
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	5532 4924
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	6.559 13.598
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	144.131 404.618
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	0.952 1.227
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	17.551 25.333
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	71.696 44.123
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1039 1857
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1783 3275
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2270 3341
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1039 1857
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1783 3275
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2270 3341

Compare specifications (specs)