NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M and AMD Radeon HD 6970M 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 880M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 2 month(s) later
• Around 40% higher core clock speed: 954 MHz vs 680 MHz
• 3.9x more texture fill rate: 127.1 GTexel / s vs 32.6 GTexel / s
• Around 60% higher pipelines: 1536 vs 960
• 2.3x better floating-point performance: 3,050 gflops vs 1,305.6 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
• 8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 1 GB
• Around 69% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3837 vs 2270
• 4.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 15023 vs 3349
• 9.7x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s): 46.273 vs 4.787
• Around 26% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s): 777.677 vs 617.819
• 4.2x better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s): 3.914 vs 0.927
• Around 56% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s): 38.196 vs 24.456
• Around 15% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3718 vs 3229
• Around 15% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3718 vs 3229

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6970M

• Around 63% lower typical power consumption: 75 Watt vs 122 Watt
• Around 98% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 656 vs 331
• Around 43% better performance in CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s): 117.801 vs 82.511

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6970M

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	3837 2270
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	331 656
Geekbench - OpenCL	GPU 1 GPU 2	15023 3349
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	46.273 4.787
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	777.677 617.819
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3.914 0.927
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	38.196 24.456
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	GPU 1 GPU 2	82.511 117.801
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3718 3229
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3356 3342
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3718 3229
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3356 3342

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