NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs ATI FirePro V8800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M and ATI FirePro V8800 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 870M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
• Around 14% higher core clock speed: 941 MHz vs 825 MHz
• Around 64% higher texture fill rate: 108.3 GTexel / s vs 66.0 GTexel / s
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 2.1x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 208 Watt
• Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2 GB
• Around 53% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3496 vs 2281
• Around 91% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 34.836 vs 18.27
• 8.5x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.038 vs 0.357
• Around 21% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 59.57 vs 49.357
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3718 vs 3575
• Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3718 vs 3575

Reasons to consider the ATI FirePro V8800

• Around 19% higher pipelines: 1600 vs 1344
• Around 2% better floating-point performance: 2,640.0 gflops vs 2,599 gflops
• Around 59% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 445 vs 279
• 2.9x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 36751 vs 12758
• Around 23% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 1180.667 vs 960.114
• 2.8x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 228.843 vs 81.753

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
GPU 2: ATI FirePro V8800

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	3496 2281
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	279 445
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	12758 36751
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	34.836 18.27
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	960.114 1180.667
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.038 0.357
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	59.57 49.357
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	81.753 228.843
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3718 3575
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3353 3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3718 3575
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3353 3356

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