GeForce 8700M GT SLI and Radeon R3 (Mullins/Beema) - video card comparison

GeForce 8700M GT SLI

Radeon R3 (Mullins/Beema)

Architecture

G8x (2007−2008)

GCN 1.1 (2014)

GPU code name

NB8E-SE

Beema/Mullins

Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

September 2007

April 2014

Boost clock speed

-

686 MHz

Core clock speed

625 MHz

350 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

80 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

578 Million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

64

128

Power consumption (TDP)

58 Watt

-

Memory type

GDDR3

-

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

-

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

-

Shared memory

-

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DirectX

10

12 (FL 12_0)