AMD Radeon E8870 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 525M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

672 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8870 +567%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 525M

0.23 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870

VS

GeForce GT 525M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jan 2011

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

96

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

230.4 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

19.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

GF108

Saturn PRO

GPU Variant

N12P-GE-OP-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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