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    GeForce GTX 560M vs Radeon HD 8870M

    GeForce GTX 560M
    Memory: 1536Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 30 May 2011
    GeForce GTX 560M
    Radeon HD 8870M
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 1 Apr 2013
    Radeon HD 8870M

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 560M
      100%
    • Radeon HD 8870M
      131%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 560M

    Supports PhysX
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8870M

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 31% higher average synthetic performance.
    Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
    Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Supports Mantle
    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    Radeon HD 8870M

    HWBench recommends Radeon HD 8870M

    The Radeon HD 8870M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 560MRadeon HD 8870M
    GPU NameGF116 (N12E-GS-A1)vsVenus (Venus XT)
    Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size238 mm²vs123 mm²
    Transistors1,170 millionvs1,500 million
    Shaders192vs640
    Compute Units4vs10
    Core clock775 MHzvs725 MHz
    ROPs24vs16
    TMUs32vs40

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 560MRadeon HD 8870M
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed625 MHz
    2500 MHz effective    		vs1125 MHz
    4500 MHz effective
    Memory Size1536 Mbvs2048 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 560MRadeon HD 8870M
    TDP75 wattsvs0 watts
    Release Date30 May 2011vs1 Apr 2013

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 560M
      6.20 GP/s
    • Radeon HD 8870M
      12.40 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 560M
      24.80 GT/s
    • Radeon HD 8870M
      31.00 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 560M
      60.00 GB/s
    • Radeon HD 8870M
      72.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 560M
      595.20 GFLOPs
    • Radeon HD 8870M
      992.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 560M
      2110
    • Radeon HD 8870M
      2780

    Points (higher is better)

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