NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon HD 7870M
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and AMD Radeon HD 7870M 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 970M
- Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
- Around 16% higher core clock speed: 924 MHz vs 800 MHz
- 2.6x more texture fill rate: 83.04 GTexel / s vs 32 GTexel / s
- 2x more pipelines: 1280 vs 640
- 2.6x better floating-point performance: 2,657 gflops vs 1,024 gflops
- 3x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 2 GB
- 3.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5691 vs 1507
- 2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3699 vs 1367
- 2.7x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3699 vs 1367
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Launch date | 7 October 2014 vs 24 April 2012 |
| Core clock speed | 924 MHz vs 800 MHz |
| Texture fill rate | 83.04 GTexel / s vs 32 GTexel / s |
| Pipelines | 1280 vs 640 |
| Floating-point performance | 2,657 gflops vs 1,024 gflops |
| Maximum memory size | 6 GB vs 2 GB |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 5691 vs 1507 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3699 vs 1367 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3699 vs 1367 |
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7870M
- Around 80% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 81 Watt
- Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 2500 MHz
- Around 47% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 556 vs 378
- Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3359 vs 3342
- Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3359 vs 3342
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 45 Watt vs 81 Watt |
| Memory clock speed | 4000 MHz vs 2500 MHz |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 556 vs 378 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3359 vs 3342 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3359 vs 3342 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7870M
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| Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M | AMD Radeon HD 7870M |
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| PassMark - G3D Mark | 5691 | 1507 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 378 | 556 |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 19001 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 59.428 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 1113.788 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 4.157 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 39.101 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 81.909 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 8546 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3699 | 1367 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3342 | 3359 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 8546 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3699 | 1367 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3342 | 3359 |
| 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 472 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M | AMD Radeon HD 7870M | |
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Essentials |
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| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | GCN 1.0 |
| Code name | GM204 | Heathrow |
| Launch date | 7 October 2014 | 24 April 2012 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $2,560.89 | |
| Place in performance rating | 568 | 590 |
| Price now | $1,899 | |
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
| Value for money (0-100) | 3.99 | |
Technical info |
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| Boost clock speed | 1038 MHz | |
| Core clock speed | 924 MHz | 800 MHz |
| CUDA cores | 1280 | |
| Floating-point performance | 2,657 gflops | 1,024 gflops |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Pipelines | 1280 | 640 |
| Texture fill rate | 83.04 GTexel / s | 32 GTexel / s |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 81 Watt | 45 Watt |
| Transistor count | 5,200 million | 1,500 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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| Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
| DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support | 1 | |
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| HDMI | ||
| VGA аnalog display support | 1 | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| Bus support | PCI Express 3.0 | |
| Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Laptop size | large | large |
| SLI options | 1 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None | |
API support |
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| DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) | 12.0 (11_1) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.5 | 4.5 |
Memory |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 6 GB | 2 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 120 GB / s | 64 GB / s |
| Memory bus width | 192 Bit | 128 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 2500 MHz | 4000 MHz |
| Memory type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Shared memory | 0 | 0 |
Technologies |
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| DSR | ||
| GameStream | ||
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| GeForce ShadowPlay | ||
| GPU Boost | ||
| H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder | ||
| Optimus | ||
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