AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8870M and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700 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 Go 7700

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8870M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 61% higher core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 61% higher boost clock speed: 725 MHz vs 450 MHz
5.7x more texture fill rate: 31 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
53.3x more pipelines: 640 vs 12
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
4.5x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 1000 MHz
11.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1638 vs 148
2.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 629 vs 232

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 April 2013 vs 1 August 2006
Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 450 MHz
Boost clock speed	725 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	31 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 12
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1638 vs 148
PassMark - G2D Mark	629 vs 232

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8870M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1638

148

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

629

232

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8870M	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700
PassMark - G3D Mark	1638	148
PassMark - G2D Mark	629	232
Geekbench - OpenCL	8637
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 Go 7700
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Curie
Code name	Venus	G73
Design	AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Launch date	1 April 2013	1 August 2006
Place in performance rating	744	747
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	725 MHz	450 MHz
Compute units	10
Core clock speed	725 MHz	450 MHz
Floating-point performance	992.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	640	12
Texture fill rate	31 GTexel / s	5.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count	1,500 million	177 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large	medium sized
API support
DirectX	11	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB / s	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	500 Bit
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	128
Shared memory	0	0