NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M and NVIDIA GeForce 7000M 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 1 month(s) later
941x more core clock speed: 941 MHz vs 1 MHz
2.8x more boost clock speed: 967 MHz vs 350 MHz
672x more pipelines: 1344 vs 2
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
265.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3450 vs 13
Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 276 vs 239

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 March 2014 vs 1 February 2006
Core clock speed	941 MHz vs 1 MHz
Boost clock speed	967 MHz vs 350 MHz
Pipelines	1344 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3450 vs 13
PassMark - G2D Mark	276 vs 239

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7000M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3450

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

276

239

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M	NVIDIA GeForce 7000M
PassMark - G3D Mark	3450	13
PassMark - G2D Mark	276	239
Geekbench - OpenCL	12462
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
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	6350
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3353
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1336

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M	NVIDIA GeForce 7000M
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler
Code name	GK104	C67
Launch date	12 March 2014	1 February 2006
Place in performance rating	725	728
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	967 MHz	350 MHz
Core clock speed	941 MHz	1 MHz
CUDA cores	1344
Floating-point performance	2,599 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1344	2
Texture fill rate	108.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 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)
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	shared Memory
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB
Memory bandwidth	120.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit
Memory type	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	1
Standard memory configuration	GDDR5
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