NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M and ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT 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 6 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 59% higher core clock speed: 954 MHz vs 601 MHz
  • 17.6x more texture fill rate: 127.1 GTexel / s vs 7.21 GTexel / s
  • 6.4x more pipelines: 1536 vs 240
  • 10.6x better floating-point performance: 3,050 gflops vs 288.48 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
  • Around 23% lower typical power consumption: 122 Watt vs 150 Watt
  • 32x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 256 MB
  • 13x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3783 vs 292
  • Around 27% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3356 vs 2648
  • Around 27% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3356 vs 2648
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 March 2014 vs 6 November 2007
Core clock speed 954 MHz vs 601 MHz
Texture fill rate 127.1 GTexel / s vs 7.21 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1536 vs 240
Floating-point performance 3,050 gflops vs 288.48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 80 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 122 Watt vs 150 Watt
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 256 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3783 vs 292
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356 vs 2648
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356 vs 2648

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

  • Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 344 vs 332
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 344 vs 332

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3783
292
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
332
344
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
2648
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
2648
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 3783 292
PassMark - G2D Mark 332 344
Geekbench - OpenCL 15023
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 34.42
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 776.776
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.915
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 36.688
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 2648
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4501
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356 2648
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1611

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT

Essentials

Architecture Kepler TeraScale
Code name GK104 R600
Launch date 12 March 2014 6 November 2007
Place in performance rating 779 777
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 993 MHz
Core clock speed 954 MHz 601 MHz
CUDA cores 1536
Floating-point performance 3,050 gflops 288.48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 80 nm
Pipelines 1536 240
Texture fill rate 127.1 GTexel / s 7.21 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 122 Watt 150 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 720 million

Video outputs and ports

7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 8-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 160.0 GB / s 51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0
Standard memory configuration GDDR5
Memory clock speed 1600 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