AMD Radeon Pro 5600M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5600M 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon Pro 5600M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5600M

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 3 month(s) later
Around 6% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 941 MHz
Around 7% higher boost clock speed: 1030 MHz vs 967 MHz
1521.7x more texture fill rate: 164.8 GTexel/s vs 108.3 GTexel / s
Around 90% higher pipelines: 2560 vs 1344
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
2x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 100 Watt
2.7x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 3 GB
3.7x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 47784 vs 12758
Around 62% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 10296 vs 6350
Around 62% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 10296 vs 6350
2.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 678 vs 279
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9198 vs 3496

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 Jun 2020 vs 12 March 2014
Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 941 MHz
Boost clock speed	1030 MHz vs 967 MHz
Texture fill rate	164.8 GTexel/s vs 108.3 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2560 vs 1344
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 100 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 3 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	47784 vs 12758
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	10296 vs 6350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	10296 vs 6350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3354 vs 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3354 vs 3353
PassMark - G2D Mark	678 vs 279
PassMark - G3D Mark	9198 vs 3496

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3718 vs 3715
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3718 vs 3715

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5600M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

47784

12758

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

10296

6350

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

10296

6350

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3715

3718

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3715

3718

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3354

3353

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3354

3353

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

678

279

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

9198

3496

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 5600M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
Geekbench - OpenCL	47784	12758
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	10296	6350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	10296	6350
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3354	3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3354	3353
PassMark - G2D Mark	678	279
PassMark - G3D Mark	9198	3496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		34.836
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		960.114
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.038
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		59.57
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		81.753
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1336

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 5600M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	Kepler
Code name	Navi 12	GK104
Launch date	15 Jun 2020	12 March 2014
Place in performance rating	282	691
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1030 MHz	967 MHz
Compute units	40
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	941 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	329.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.55 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.274 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2560	1344
Pixel fill rate	65.92 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	164.8 GTexel/s	108.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	100 Watt
CUDA cores		1344
Floating-point performance		2,599 gflops
Transistor count		3,540 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support		Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support		Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support		Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support		Up to 2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Width	IGP
Bus support		PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL	2.0	1.1
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	394.2 GB/s	120.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	2048 bit	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	770 MHz (1540 MHz effective)
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Standard memory configuration		GDDR5
Technologies
3D Blu-Ray
BatteryBoost
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
TXAA