AMD Radeon HD 8870M
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M
AMD Radeon HD 8870M
VS
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 8870M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

517
Place in performance rating
496
GCN
Architecture
Fermi
Venus
Code name
GF114
Laptop
Type
Laptop
18 December 2012 (8 years ago)
Release date
22 March 2012 (9 years ago)
$338
Price now
$2.59
0.61
Value for money
17.64
Venus
GPU code name
N13E-GS1-LP
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 8870M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

640
Pipelines
336
725 MHz
Core clock speed
598 MHz
775 MHz
Boost Clock
no data
1,500 million
Transistor count
1,950 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
no data
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
31.00
Texture fill rate
33.5 billion/sec
992.0 gflops
Floating-point performance
803.7 gflops
no data
CUDA cores
336
640
Pipelines / CUDA cores
336
775 MHz
Boost clock speed
no data
1,500 million
Number of transistors
1,950 million
no data
Thermal design power (TDP)
75 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 8870M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
large
Laptop size
large
no data
SLI options
+
no data
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0

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 Radeon HD 8870M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M can be seen in this section.

GDDR5, DDR3
Memory type
GDDR5
2 GB
Maximum RAM amount
3 GB
128 Bit
Memory bus width
192bit
4500 MHz
Memory clock speed
1500 MHz
72 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
72.0 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 8870M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs
no data
HDCP
+
no data
Maximum VGA resolution
Up to 2048x1536
no data
HDMI
+

Technologies

The difference between AMD Radeon HD 8870M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M is the additional functionality.

no data
3D Vision
+
no data
CUDA
+
no data
Optimus
+
no data
FXAA
+
no data
Adaptive VSync
+
no data
Verde Drivers
+
no data
3D Vision / 3DTV Play
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 8870M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 API
4.6
OpenGL
4.5
no data
Vulkan
N/A
no data
Shader Model
5.1
no data
OpenCL
1.1

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 8870M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M 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 Radeon HD 8870M or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8870M
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8870M
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8870M
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8870M
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8870M
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M
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 Radeon HD 8870M

More pipelines (640 vs 336)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M

0.38% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($2.59 vs $338)

More maximum RAM amount (3 GB vs 2 GB)

So, AMD Radeon HD 8870M or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M .

AMD Radeon HD 8870M versus NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M performance benchmarks comparison

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