AMD Radeon HD 6850M vs NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT

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AMD Radeon HD 6850M NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 8700M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850M +1250%

1.08 TFLOPS

GeForce 8700M GT

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M

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GeForce 8700M GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2007

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 8M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-HE

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.000 GPixel/s

27.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1080 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Granville

GPU Name

G84

Granville PRO

GPU Variant

NB8E-SE

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

29W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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