AMD Cedar
VS
NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI
AMD Cedar
VS
NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Cedar and NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
810
TeraScale 2
Architecture
G8x
Cedar
Code name
NB8E-SE
Desktop
Type
Laptop
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Release date
18 September 2007 (14 years ago)
$17.81
Price now
$545
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Value for money
0.04
Cedar
GPU code name
NB8E-SE
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Cedar and NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

80
Pipelines
64
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Core clock speed
625 MHz
292 million
Transistor count
578 Million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
58 Watt
80
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
292 million
Number of transistors
578 Million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
58 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Cedar and NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI.

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Laptop size
large

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Cedar and NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
GDDR3
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Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
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Memory bus width
128 Bit
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Memory clock speed
800 MHz
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Shared memory
-

Technologies

The difference between AMD Cedar and NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI is the additional functionality.

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PCI-E 16x
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Gigathread technology
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PowerMizer 7.0
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API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Cedar and NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
DirectX 10, Shader 4.0
4.4
OpenGL
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Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cedar and NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Cedar or NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cedar
NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cedar
NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cedar
NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cedar
NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cedar
NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Cedar

Cheaper ($17.81 vs $545)

More pipelines (80 vs 64)

Finer manufacturing process technology (40 nm vs 80 nm)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI

2.01% faster in synthetic tests

So, AMD Cedar or NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI .

AMD Cedar versus NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT SLI performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Cedar
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