Radeon HD 8870M vs GeForce GTX 950M

Radeon HD 8870M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 1 Apr 2013
Radeon HD 8870M
GeForce GTX 950M
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 950M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 8870M
    100%
  • GeForce GTX 950M
    158%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8870M

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950M

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Around 58% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 950M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950M

The GeForce GTX 950M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 8870MGeForce GTX 950M
GPU NameVenus (Venus XT)vsGM107 (N16P-GT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size123 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors1,500 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders640vs640
Compute Units10vs5
Core clock725 MHzvs993 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs40

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 8870MGeForce GTX 950M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 8870MGeForce GTX 950M
TDP0 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date1 Apr 2013vs13 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8870M
    12.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 950M
    15.89 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 8870M
    31.00 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 950M
    39.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 8870M
    72.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 950M
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 8870M
    992.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 950M
    1271.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 8870M
    2780
  • GeForce GTX 950M
    4410

Points (higher is better)

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