NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M and NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M 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 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 6.7x more texture fill rate: 127.1 GTexel / s vs 19 billion / sec
  • 24x more pipelines: 1536 vs 64
  • 15.9x better floating-point performance: 3,050 gflops vs 192 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 1 GB
  • 5.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3818 vs 679
  • Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 333 vs 308
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3356 vs 3221
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3356 vs 3221
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 March 2014 vs 3 March 2009
Texture fill rate 127.1 GTexel / s vs 19 billion / sec
Pipelines 1536 vs 64
Floating-point performance 3,050 gflops vs 192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3818 vs 679
PassMark - G2D Mark 333 vs 308
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3356 vs 3221
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356 vs 3221

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

  • Around 57% higher core clock speed: 1500 MHz vs 954 MHz
  • 2x lower typical power consumption: 60 Watt vs 122 Watt
Core clock speed 1500 MHz vs 954 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 60 Watt vs 122 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3818
679
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
333
308
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
3221
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3356
3221
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M
PassMark - G3D Mark 3818 679
PassMark - G2D Mark 333 308
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 3221
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4501
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3718
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3356 3221
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1611

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

Essentials

Architecture Kepler Tesla
Code name GK104 G94
Launch date 12 March 2014 3 March 2009
Place in performance rating 775 777
Type Laptop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 993 MHz
Core clock speed 954 MHz 1500 MHz
CUDA cores 1536 64
Floating-point performance 3,050 gflops 192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 1536 64
Texture fill rate 127.1 GTexel / s 19 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 122 Watt 60 Watt
Transistor count 3,540 million 505 million
Gigaflops 288

Video outputs and ports

7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
Display Connectors No outputs VGADisplayPortDual Link DVIHDMILVDSSingle Link DVI
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
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0 PCI-E 2.0
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size large large
Supplementary power connectors None
MXM Type MXM 3.0 Type-B
SLI options 2-way

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 10.0
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 1 GB
Memory bandwidth 160.0 GB / s 51 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0 0
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
HybridPower
Power management 8.0
PureVideo HD