NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
• Around 14% higher core clock speed: 823 MHz vs 725 MHz
• Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 797 MHz vs 725 MHz
• 3.3x more texture fill rate: 102.0 GTexel / s vs 31 GTexel / s
• 2.4x more pipelines: 1536 vs 640
• 2.5x better floating-point performance: 2,448 gflops vs 992.0 gflops
• 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
• 2.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3808 vs 1638
• Around 45% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 12778 vs 8804
• Around 66% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 39.934 vs 24.097
• Around 52% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 705.616 vs 465.496
• Around 64% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.631 vs 2.211

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8870M

• Around 80% higher memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 2500 MHz
• Around 49% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 629 vs 422
• 2.8x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 38.126 vs 13.832
• Around 35% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 106.848 vs 78.867
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3702 vs 3679
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3702 vs 3679

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8870M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	3808 1638
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	422 629
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	12778 8804
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	39.934 24.097
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	705.616 465.496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.631 2.211
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	13.832 38.126
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	78.867 106.848
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3679 3702
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3351 3357
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3679 3702
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3351 3357

Compare specifications (specs)