NVIDIA GRID K260Q vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GRID K260Q and AMD Radeon HD 8970M 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, 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), 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), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GRID K260Q

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
• Around 32% higher texture fill rate: 95.36 GTexel / s vs 72 GTexel / s
• Around 20% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 1280
• Around 4% higher memory clock speed: 5000 MHz vs 4800 MHz
• 2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 6474 vs 2521
• 2.6x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 6474 vs 2521

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8970M

• Around 14% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 745 MHz
• Around 1% better floating-point performance: 2,304 gflops vs 2,289 gflops
• 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 225 Watt
• 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
• Around 31% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3876 vs 2949
• 2.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 807 vs 361
• Around 94% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3688 vs 1898
• Around 94% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3688 vs 1898
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 2595 vs 1954
• Around 33% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2595 vs 1954

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GRID K260Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8970M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2949 3876
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	361 807
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	6474 2521
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	6474 2521
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1898 3688
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1898 3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1954 2595
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	1954 2595

Compare specifications (specs)