AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8870M and NVIDIA GeForce 7000M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8870M

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 1 month(s) later
725x more core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 1 MHz
2.1x more boost clock speed: 725 MHz vs 350 MHz
320x more pipelines: 640 vs 2
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
126x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1638 vs 13
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 629 vs 239

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 April 2013 vs 1 February 2006
Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 1 MHz
Boost clock speed	725 MHz vs 350 MHz
Pipelines	640 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1638 vs 13
PassMark - G2D Mark	629 vs 239

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8870M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1638

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

629

239

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8870M	NVIDIA GeForce 7000M
PassMark - G3D Mark	1638	13
PassMark - G2D Mark	629	239
Geekbench - OpenCL	9907
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	24.097
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	465.496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	2.211
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	38.126
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	106.848
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3702
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3702
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8870M	NVIDIA GeForce 7000M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0
Code name	Venus	C67
Design	AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Launch date	1 April 2013	1 February 2006
Place in performance rating	725	727
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	725 MHz	350 MHz
Compute units	10
Core clock speed	725 MHz	1 MHz
Floating-point performance	992.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	640	2
Texture fill rate	31 GTexel / s
Transistor count	1,500 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size	large
API support
DirectX	11	shared Memory
OpenGL	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	1