NVIDIA T500 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA T500 Mobile and AMD Radeon HD 8870M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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).

NVIDIA T500 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA T500 Mobile

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 8 month(s) later
Around 88% higher core clock speed: 1365 MHz vs 725 MHz
2.3x more boost clock speed: 1695 MHz vs 725 MHz
3061.9x more texture fill rate: 94.92 GTexel/s vs 31 GTexel / s
Around 40% higher pipelines: 896 vs 640
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
3.2x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 29173 vs 9065

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 Dec 2020 vs 1 April 2013
Core clock speed	1365 MHz vs 725 MHz
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz vs 725 MHz
Texture fill rate	94.92 GTexel/s vs 31 GTexel / s
Pipelines	896 vs 640
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm vs 28 nm
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	29173 vs 9065

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8870M

3.6x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 1250 MHz (10 Gbps effective)
Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3702 vs 3199
Around 16% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3702 vs 3199
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3357 vs 3339
Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3357 vs 3339

Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz vs 1250 MHz (10 Gbps effective)
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3702 vs 3199
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3702 vs 3199
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3357 vs 3339
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3357 vs 3339

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA T500 Mobile
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8870M

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3199

3702

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3199

3702

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3339

3357

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

3339

3357

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

29173

9065

Name	NVIDIA T500 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 8870M
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	5095
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	5095
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3199	3702
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3199	3702
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3339	3357
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3339	3357
Geekbench - OpenCL	29173	9065
PassMark - G3D Mark		1638
PassMark - G2D Mark		629
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		24.097
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		465.496
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		2.211
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		38.126
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		106.848

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA T500 Mobile	AMD Radeon HD 8870M
Essentials
Architecture	Turing	GCN 1.0
Code name	TU117	Venus
Launch date	2 Dec 2020	1 April 2013
Place in performance rating	648	726
Design		AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1695 MHz	725 MHz
Core clock speed	1365 MHz	725 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	12 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	94.92 GFLOPS (1:32)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	6.075 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	3.037 TFLOPS
Pipelines	896	640
Pixel fill rate	54.24 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	94.92 GTexel/s	31 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	18 Watt
Transistor count	4700 million	1,500 million
Compute units		10
Floating-point performance		992.0 gflops
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	IGP
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.1	11
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
Shader Model	6.6
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	80 GB/s	72 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1250 MHz (10 Gbps effective)	4500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Shared memory		0