NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs ATI Radeon E4690

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M and ATI Radeon E4690 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 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 57% higher core clock speed: 941 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 5.6x more texture fill rate: 108.3 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
  • 4.2x more pipelines: 1344 vs 320
  • 6.8x better floating-point performance: 2,599 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 55 nm
  • 6x more maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 512 MB
  • 8.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3484 vs 405
  • Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3353 vs 3302
  • Around 2% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3353 vs 3302
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 March 2014 vs 1 June 2009
Core clock speed 941 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 108.3 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1344 vs 320
Floating-point performance 2,599 gflops vs 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 55 nm
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3484 vs 405
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353 vs 3302
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353 vs 3302

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon E4690

  • 3.3x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 100 Watt
  • Around 24% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 347 vs 279
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 30 Watt vs 100 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 347 vs 279

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon E4690

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3484
405
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
279
347
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3353
3302
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3353
3302
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M ATI Radeon E4690
PassMark - G3D Mark 3484 405
PassMark - G2D Mark 279 347
Geekbench - OpenCL 12745
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 34.836
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 960.114
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.038
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 59.57
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 81.753
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 6350
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353 3302
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 6350
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353 3302
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1336

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M ATI Radeon E4690

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale
Code name GK104 RV730
Launch date 12 March 2014 1 June 2009
Place in performance rating 717 720
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 967 MHz
Core clock speed 941 MHz 600 MHz
CUDA cores 1344
Floating-point performance 2,599 gflops 384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 55 nm
Pipelines 1344 320
Texture fill rate 108.3 GTexel / s 19.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt 30 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 514 million

Video outputs and ports

7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support Up to 3840x2160
eDP 1.2 signal support Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
HDMI
LVDS signal support Up to 1920x1200
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
VGA аnalog display support Up to 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface MXM-B (3.0) MXM-II
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.1
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 3 GB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 120.0 GB / s 22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 128 Bit
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0
Standard memory configuration GDDR5
Memory clock speed 1400 MHz

Technologies

3D Blu-Ray
BatteryBoost
CUDA
Direct Compute
FXAA
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI
TXAA