AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M SLI

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8870M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M SLI 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 - 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 GTX 280M SLI

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8870M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 24% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 585 MHz
2.5x more pipelines: 640 vs 256
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
4.7x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 950 MHz

Launch date	1 April 2013 vs 2 March 2009
Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 585 MHz
Pipelines	640 vs 256
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 55 nm
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz vs 950 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8870M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M SLI

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8870M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M SLI
PassMark - G3D Mark	1638
PassMark - G2D Mark	629
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 GTX 280M SLI
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	G9x
Code name	Venus	N10E-GTX
Design	AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Launch date	1 April 2013	2 March 2009
Place in performance rating	726	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	725 MHz
Compute units	10
Core clock speed	725 MHz	585 MHz
Floating-point performance	992.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	55 nm
Pipelines	640	256
Texture fill rate	31 GTexel / s
Transistor count	1,500 million	1508 Million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		150 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size	large	large
API support
DirectX	11	10
OpenGL	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz	950 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CUDA
HybridPower
PureVideo HD