AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 140 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8870M and NVIDIA GeForce GT 140 OEM 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 GT 140 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8870M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 12% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 650 MHz
Around 49% higher texture fill rate: 31 GTexel / s vs 20.8 GTexel / s
10x more pipelines: 640 vs 64
4.8x better floating-point performance: 992.0 gflops vs 208 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
2.5x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
2.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1638 vs 658
2.8x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 629 vs 225

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 April 2013 vs 10 March 2009
Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 650 MHz
Texture fill rate	31 GTexel / s vs 20.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 64
Floating-point performance	992.0 gflops vs 208 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1638 vs 658
PassMark - G2D Mark	629 vs 225

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8870M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GT 140 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1638

658

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

629

225

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8870M	NVIDIA GeForce GT 140 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	1638	658
PassMark - G2D Mark	629	225
Geekbench - OpenCL	8804
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 GT 140 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla
Code name	Venus	G94B
Design	AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Launch date	1 April 2013	10 March 2009
Place in performance rating	726	728
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	725 MHz
Compute units	10
Core clock speed	725 MHz	650 MHz
Floating-point performance	992.0 gflops	208 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	640	64
Texture fill rate	31 GTexel / s	20.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count	1,500 million	505 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		105 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Length		229 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	11	10.0
OpenGL	4.4	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB / s	57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz	1800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0