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    GeForce GTX 880M vs Radeon R9 M470X

    GeForce GTX 880M
    Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 12 Mar 2014
    GeForce GTX 880M
    Radeon R9 M470X
    Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 15 May 2016
    Radeon R9 M470X

    Summary

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 880M

    Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
    Supports PhysX
    Supports G-Sync
    Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider Radeon R9 M470X

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
    Supports FreeSync
    Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Supports TrueAudio
    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 880M

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 880M

    Based on theoretical specifications.

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 880MRadeon R9 M470X
    GPU NameGK104 (N15E-GX-A2)vsStrato (Strato XT)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size294 mm²vs160 mm²
    Transistors3,540 millionvs2,080 million
    Shaders1536vs896
    Compute Units8vs14
    Core clock954 MHzvs1000 MHz
    ROPs32vs16
    TMUs128vs56

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 880MRadeon R9 M470X
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed1250 MHz
    5000 MHz effective    		vs1500 MHz
    6000 MHz effective
    Memory Size8192 Mbvs4096 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 880MRadeon R9 M470X
    TDP122 wattsvs0 watts
    Release Date12 Mar 2014vs15 May 2016

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 880M
      30.53 GP/s
    • Radeon R9 M470X
      17.60 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 880M
      122.10 GT/s
    • Radeon R9 M470X
      61.60 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 880M
      160.00 GB/s
    • Radeon R9 M470X
      96.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 880M
      2930.70 GFLOPs
    • Radeon R9 M470X
      1971.20 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

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