NVIDIA GeForce 830A vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 830A and AMD Radeon HD 8870M 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 - 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), 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).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 830A

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
• Around 49% higher core clock speed: 1082 MHz vs 725 MHz
• Around 59% higher boost clock speed: 1150 MHz vs 725 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8870M

• Around 68% higher texture fill rate: 31 GTexel / s vs 18.4 GTexel / s
• 2.5x more pipelines: 640 vs 256
• Around 68% better floating-point performance: 992.0 gflops vs 588.8 gflops
• 2.5x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
• Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1638 vs 1138
• Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 629 vs 487
• 2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 8637 vs 4315
• Around 28% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3702 vs 2889
• Around 28% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3702 vs 2889
• Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3357 vs 3302
• Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3357 vs 3302

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 830A
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8870M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	1138 1638
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	487 629
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	4315 8637
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2889 3702
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	2889 3702
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3302 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3302 3357

Compare specifications (specs)