NVIDIA NVS 5200M vs AMD Radeon HD 6870M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM NVS 5200M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA NVS 5200M 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 5 months late
Lower TDP (25W vs 50W)
AMD Radeon HD 6870M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
NVS 5200M
0.24 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6870M
+350%
1.08 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2012
Release Date
Jan 2011
NVS Mobile
Generation
Vancouver
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
64.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
2
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
800
16
TMUs
40
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.500 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.80 GPixel/s
10.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
240.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1080 GFLOPS
20.00 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
25W
TDP
50W
-
-
-
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
-
-
-
Graphics Processor
GF117
GPU Name
Granville
N13M-NS1
GPU Variant
Granville XT
(216-0769024)
Fermi 2.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.585 billion
Transistors
1.04 billion
116 mm²
Die Size
166 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.1
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0
