NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M vs ATI Mobility Radeon X1700

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M and ATI Mobility Radeon X1700 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 880M

ATI Mobility Radeon X1700

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M

Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2x more core clock speed: 954 MHz vs 475 MHz
2.1x more boost clock speed: 993 MHz vs 475 MHz
66.9x more texture fill rate: 127.1 GTexel / s vs 1.9 GTexel / s
128x more pipelines: 1536 vs 12
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 90 nm
32x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 256 MB
36.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3817 vs 105
Around 45% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 330 vs 228

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 March 2014 vs 1 February 2006
Core clock speed	954 MHz vs 475 MHz
Boost clock speed	993 MHz vs 475 MHz
Texture fill rate	127.1 GTexel / s vs 1.9 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1536 vs 12
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3817 vs 105
PassMark - G2D Mark	330 vs 228

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X1700

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3817

105

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

330

228

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M	ATI Mobility Radeon X1700
PassMark - G3D Mark	3817	105
PassMark - G2D Mark	330	228
Geekbench - OpenCL	15023
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	46.273
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	777.677
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.914
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	38.196
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	82.511
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	4501
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3356
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	4501
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3356
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1611

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M	ATI Mobility Radeon X1700
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler	R500
Code name	GK104	M66
Launch date	12 March 2014	1 February 2006
Place in performance rating	763	766
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	993 MHz	475 MHz
Core clock speed	954 MHz	475 MHz
CUDA cores	1536
Floating-point performance	3,050 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	1536	12
Texture fill rate	127.1 GTexel / s	1.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	122 Watt
Transistor count	3,540 million	157 million
Video outputs and ports
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors	No outputs	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)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	160.0 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	400 Bit
Memory type	GDDR5	128
Shared memory	0	0
Standard memory configuration	GDDR5
Memory clock speed		800 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
Powerplay 6.0