AMD Radeon PRO WX 3100 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon PRO WX 3100 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon PRO WX 3100

• Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
• Around 26% higher boost clock speed: 1219 MHz vs 967 MHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
• Around 54% lower typical power consumption: 65 Watt vs 100 Watt
• Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 3 GB
• Around 51% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 418 vs 276
• Around 50% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 122.245 vs 81.753

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

• Around 2% higher core clock speed: 941 MHz vs 925 MHz
• 2.8x more texture fill rate: 108.3 GTexel / s vs 39.01 GTexel / s
• 2.6x more pipelines: 1344 vs 512
• 2.1x better floating-point performance: 2,599 gflops vs 1,248 gflops
• Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3450 vs 2523
• Around 25% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 12462 vs 9971
• Around 16% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 34.836 vs 29.959
• Around 11% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 960.114 vs 864.134
• Around 5% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.038 vs 2.893
• Around 21% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 59.57 vs 49.305
• Around 40% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 6350 vs 4551
• Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3718 vs 3607
• Around 40% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 6350 vs 4551
• Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3718 vs 3607

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon PRO WX 3100
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2523 3450
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	418 276
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	9971 12462
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	29.959 34.836
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	864.134 960.114
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2.893 3.038
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	49.305 59.57
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	122.245 81.753
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4551 6350
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3607 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3359 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	4551 6350
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3607 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3359 3353

Compare specifications (specs)