NVIDIA GRID M60-2Q vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GRID M60-2Q and AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 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 M60-2Q

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
  • Around 18% higher boost clock speed: 1180 MHz vs 1000 MHz
  • Around 89% higher texture fill rate: 151.0 GTexel / s vs 80 GTexel / s
  • Around 60% higher pipelines: 2048 vs 1280
  • Around 89% better floating-point performance: 4,833 gflops vs 2,560 gflops
  • 4.2x more memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 1200 MHz
  • Around 12% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5203 vs 4637
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 30 August 2015 vs 5 March 2012
Boost clock speed 1180 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate 151.0 GTexel / s vs 80 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2048 vs 1280
Floating-point performance 4,833 gflops vs 2,560 gflops
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5203 vs 4637

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

  • Around 90% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 590 vs 311
  • Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 6821 vs 5460
  • Around 25% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 6821 vs 5460
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3716 vs 3526
  • Around 5% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3716 vs 3526
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 590 vs 311
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6821 vs 5460
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6821 vs 5460
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3716 vs 3526
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3716 vs 3526
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358 vs 3350
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3358 vs 3350

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GRID M60-2Q
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5203
4637
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
311
590
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5460
6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
5460
6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3526
3716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3526
3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3350
3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3350
3358
Name NVIDIA GRID M60-2Q AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark 5203 4637
PassMark - G2D Mark 311 590
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 5460 6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 5460 6821
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3526 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3526 3716
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3350 3358
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3350 3358
Geekbench - OpenCL 77430
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 55.001
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 952.668
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.767
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 64.456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 294.215
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1651

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GRID M60-2Q AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 GCN 1.0
Code name GM204 Pitcairn
Launch date 30 August 2015 5 March 2012
Place in performance rating 474 477
Type Workstation Desktop
Design AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Launch price (MSRP) $349

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1180 MHz 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 930 MHz
Floating-point performance 4,833 gflops 2,560 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2048 1280
Texture fill rate 151.0 GTexel / s 80 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 225 Watt 225 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 2,800 million
Stream Processors 1024

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm 241 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin 2x 6-pin
Bus support PCIe 2.1 x16

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 11
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 2 GB
Memory bandwidth 160.4 GB / s 153.6 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
FreeSync