NVIDIA GRID K120Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GRID K120Q and AMD Radeon HD 7870M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID K120Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 2 month(s) later
  • Around 6% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 800 MHz
Launch date 2 July 2014 vs 24 April 2012
Core clock speed 850 MHz vs 800 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7870M

  • 2.4x more texture fill rate: 32 GTexel / s vs 13.6 GTexel / s
  • 3.3x more pipelines: 640 vs 192
  • 3.1x better floating-point performance: 1,024 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
  • 2.9x lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 130 Watt
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
  • 2.2x more memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 1782 MHz
  • 5.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1507 vs 293
  • 2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 556 vs 278
Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate 32 GTexel / s vs 13.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines 640 vs 192
Floating-point performance 1,024 gflops vs 326.4 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 45 Watt vs 130 Watt
Maximum memory size 2 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed 4000 MHz vs 1782 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 1507 vs 293
PassMark - G2D Mark 556 vs 278

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GRID K120Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7870M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
293
1507
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
278
556
Name NVIDIA GRID K120Q AMD Radeon HD 7870M
PassMark - G3D Mark 293 1507
PassMark - G2D Mark 278 556
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 1367
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 1367
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3359
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3359

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GRID K120Q AMD Radeon HD 7870M

Essentials

Architecture Kepler GCN 1.0
Code name GK107 Heathrow
Launch date 2 July 2014 24 April 2012
Launch price (MSRP) $125
Place in performance rating 574 577
Type Workstation Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 850 MHz 800 MHz
Floating-point performance 326.4 gflops 1,024 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 192 640
Texture fill rate 13.6 GTexel / s 32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 130 Watt 45 Watt
Transistor count 1,270 million 1,500 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 28.51 GB / s 64 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1782 MHz 4000 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5
Shared memory 0