NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M vs NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M and 8GB VRAM RTX A4000 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA RTX A4000 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 44% (1395MHz vs 967MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (352.0GB/s vs 120.0GB/s)

3776 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 870M

2.599 TFLOPS

RTX A4000 Max Q +449%

14.28 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M

VS

RTX A4000 Max Q

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

Apr 2021

GeForce 800M

Generation

Quadro Ampere-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

941 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

967 MHz

Boost Clock

1395 MHz

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.0GB/s

Bandwidth

352.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

40

-

Compute Units

-

1344

Shading Units

5120

112

TMUs

160

24

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

160

-

RT Cores

40

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

384 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

111.6 GPixel/s

108.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

223.2 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

14.28 TFLOPS

2.599 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

14.28 TFLOPS

108.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

223.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

GA104

N15E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

8 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.3

3.0

CUDA

8.6

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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