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).

 

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 743 746
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