NVIDIA GeForce 810A vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 810A and AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 810A

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 810A

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
16.7x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 250 Watt

Launch date	22 July 2014 vs 8 January 2013
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 250 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Around 19% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 775 MHz
9.5x more texture fill rate: 118.4 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
10.7x more pipelines: 2048 vs 192
12.7x better floating-point performance: 3,789 gflops vs 297.6 gflops
3x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 1 GB
3.1x more memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Core clock speed	925 MHz vs 775 MHz
Texture fill rate	118.4 GTexel / s vs 12.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines	2048 vs 192
Floating-point performance	3,789 gflops vs 297.6 gflops
Maximum memory size	3 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	5500 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 810A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 810A	AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	622
PassMark - G2D Mark	319
Geekbench - OpenCL	1828
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3583
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3339
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3339

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 810A	AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	GK208	Tahiti
Launch date	22 July 2014	8 January 2013
Place in performance rating	752	755
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	775 MHz	925 MHz
Floating-point performance	297.6 gflops	3,789 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	192	2048
Texture fill rate	12.4 GTexel / s	118.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt	250 Watt
Transistor count		4,313 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length		274 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	264.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	384 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	5500 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5