AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 2

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 14% higher boost clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 967 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm

Launch date	7 Jan 2018 vs 12 March 2014
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz vs 967 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

10.5x more pipelines: 1344 vs 128
Around 13% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 276 vs 244
6.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3450 vs 506
3.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 12462 vs 3208

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	1344 vs 128
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	276 vs 244
PassMark - G3D Mark	3450 vs 506
Geekbench - OpenCL	12462 vs 3208

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

244

276

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

506

3450

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

3208

12462

Name	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
PassMark - G2D Mark	244	276
PassMark - G3D Mark	506	3450
Geekbench - OpenCL	3208	12462
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 - Manhattan (Frames)		3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3353
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6350
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		1336

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX Vega 2	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
Essentials
Architecture	Vega	Kepler
Code name	Vega Raven Ridge	GK104
Launch date	7 Jan 2018	12 March 2014
Place in performance rating	949	725
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz	967 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	128	1344
Transistor count	4500 million	3,540 million
Core clock speed		941 MHz
CUDA cores		1344
Floating-point performance		2,599 gflops
Texture fill rate		108.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		100 Watt
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_0)
OpenCL		1.1
OpenGL		4.5
Video outputs and ports
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors		No outputs
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
Bus support		PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface		MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size		large
Supplementary power connectors		None
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		3 GB
Memory bandwidth		120.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		192 Bit
Memory type		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