Radeon HD 8870M vs GeForce GTX 950M
Summary
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950M
The GeForce GTX 950M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 8870M | | GeForce GTX 950M | |
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GPU Name | Venus (Venus XT) | vs | GM107 (N16P-GT) |
Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 123 mm² | vs | 148 mm² |
Transistors | 1,500 million | vs | 1,870 million |
Shaders | 640 | vs | 640 |
Compute Units | 10 | vs | 5 |
Core clock | 725 MHz | vs | 993 MHz |
ROPs | 16 | vs | 16 |
TMUs | 40 | vs | 40 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 8870M | | GeForce GTX 950M | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 128 bit |
Memory Speed | 1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 8870M | | GeForce GTX 950M | |
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TDP | 0 watts | vs | 75 watts |
Release Date | 1 Apr 2013 | vs | 13 Mar 2015 |
Radeon HD 8870M
12.40 GP/s
GeForce GTX 950M
15.89 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 8870M
31.00 GT/s
GeForce GTX 950M
39.70 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 8870M
72.00 GB/s
GeForce GTX 950M
28.80 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 8870M
992.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 950M
1271.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 8870M
2780
GeForce GTX 950M
4410
Points (higher is better)