AMD Radeon RX 560D vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 560D 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 560D

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 16% higher core clock speed: 1090 MHz vs 941 MHz
  • Around 22% higher boost clock speed: 1175 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
Launch date 4 July 2017 vs 12 March 2014
Core clock speed 1090 MHz vs 941 MHz
Boost clock speed 1175 MHz vs 967 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt vs 100 Watt
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 3 GB

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

  • Around 65% higher texture fill rate: 108.3 GTexel / s vs 65.8 GTexel / s
  • Around 50% higher pipelines: 1344 vs 896
  • Around 23% better floating-point performance: 2,599 gflops vs 2,106 gflops
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 108.3 GTexel / s vs 65.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1344 vs 896
Floating-point performance 2,599 gflops vs 2,106 gflops
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718 vs 3705
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718 vs 3705
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353 vs 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353 vs 3350

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 560D
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3705
3718
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3705
3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3350
3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3350
3353
Name AMD Radeon RX 560D NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3705 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3705 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3350 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350 3353
PassMark - G3D Mark 3450
PassMark - G2D Mark 276
Geekbench - OpenCL 12598
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1336

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 560D NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Kepler
Code name Polaris 21 GK104
Launch date 4 July 2017 12 March 2014
Launch price (MSRP) $99
Place in performance rating 740 743
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1175 MHz 967 MHz
Core clock speed 1090 MHz 941 MHz
Floating-point performance 2,106 gflops 2,599 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 896 1344
Texture fill rate 65.8 GTexel / s 108.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt 100 Watt
Transistor count 3,000 million 3,540 million
CUDA cores 1344

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 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 3.0 x8 MXM-B (3.0)
Length 170 mm
Supplementary power connectors None None
Bus support PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.5 4.5
OpenCL 1.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 96 GB / s 120.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 192 Bit
Memory clock speed 6000 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 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