Radeon HD 7870M and GeForce GTX 660M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 7870M vs GeForce GTX 660M
Radeon HD 7870M
1552
GeForce GTX 660M
1478
Radeon HD 7870M
GeForce GTX 660M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Heathrow XT
N13E-GE
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
April 2012
March 2012
Bus support
-
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
-
950 MHz
Core clock speed
800 MHz
835 MHz
CUDA cores
-
384
Floating-point performance
1,024 gflops
729.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
1,270 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
384
Power consumption (TDP)
45 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.00
30.4 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128bit
Memory clock speed
4000 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
64 GB/s
64.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
HDMI
-
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
Up to 2048x1536
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
Optimus
-
+