AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8870M and NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M 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 Quadro NVS 110M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8870M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 725 MHz vs 300 MHz
2.4x more boost clock speed: 725 MHz vs 300 MHz
25.8x more texture fill rate: 31 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s
160x more pipelines: 640 vs 4
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
7.5x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 600 MHz
34.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1638 vs 48
2.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 629 vs 236

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 April 2013 vs 1 June 2006
Core clock speed	725 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed	725 MHz vs 300 MHz
Texture fill rate	31 GTexel / s vs 1.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines	640 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1638 vs 48
PassMark - G2D Mark	629 vs 236

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8870M
GPU 2: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1638

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

629

236

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8870M	NVIDIA Quadro NVS 110M
PassMark - G3D Mark	1638	48
PassMark - G2D Mark	629	236
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 Quadro NVS 110M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Curie
Code name	Venus	G72
Design	AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Launch date	1 April 2013	1 June 2006
Place in performance rating	736	739
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	725 MHz	300 MHz
Compute units	10
Core clock speed	725 MHz	300 MHz
Floating-point performance	992.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	640	4
Texture fill rate	31 GTexel / s	1.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	1,500 million	112 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		10 Watt
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
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11	9.0c
OpenGL	4.4	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	72 GB / s	4.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	600 Bit
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz	600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	64
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
CineFX 4.0
Intellisample 4.0
PowerMizer 6.0
UltraShadow II