Radeon HD 8870M and GF119 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8870M

GF119

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

GPU code name

Venus

GF119

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

December 2012

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Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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Boost clock speed

775 MHz

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Core clock speed

725 MHz

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Floating-point performance

992.0 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

292 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

48

Texture fill rate

31.00

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Memory type

GDDR5, DDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

4500 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

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2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A

PureVideo HD

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VP5