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 |
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PassMark - G2D Mark |
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Name | AMD Radeon HD 8870M | NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700 |
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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 | |
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Essentials |
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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 |
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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 |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
Laptop size | large | medium sized |
API support |
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DirectX | 11 | 9.0c |
OpenGL | 4.4 | 2.1 |
Memory |
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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 |