GPU Comparison
GEFORCE
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
CORE STATE
GK104
VRAM
3 GB
CLOCK SPEED
967 MHz
TDP
100 W
BUS WIDTH
192 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Kepler
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2014
VS
GEFORCE
RTX A5000
CORE STATE
GA102
VRAM
24 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1695 MHz
TDP
230 W
BUS WIDTH
384 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
8 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2021
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_metal
geekbench_opencl
3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12
geekbench_vulkan
passmark_directx_10
passmark_directx_11
passmark_directx_12
passmark_directx_9
passmark_g2d
passmark_g3d
passmark_gpu_compute
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
GTX 870M
RTX A5000
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,344
8,192
+509.5%
Shaders
1,344
8,192
+509.5%
TMUs
112
256
+128.6%
ROPs
24
96
+300.0%
SM Count
—
64
Clocks
Base Clock
941 MHz
1170 MHz
Boost Clock
967 MHz
1695 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
5 Gbps effective
2000 MHz
16 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
3 GB
24 GB
VRAM (MB)
3,072
24,576
+700.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
192 bit
384 bit
Bandwidth
120.0 GB/s
768.0 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
384 KB
6 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
27.08 GPixel/s
162.7 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
108.3 GTexel/s
433.9 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.599 TFLOPS
27.77 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
108.3 GFLOPS (1:24)
433.9 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
27.77 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
64
Tensor Cores
—
256
Power
TDP
100 W
230 W
TDP (W)
100
230
+130.0%
Suggested PSU
—
550 W
Power Connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
Kepler
Ampere
GPU Name
GK104
GA102
Generation
GeForce 800M
Workstation Ampere
(Ax000)
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
3,540 million
28,300 million
Die Size
294 mm²
628 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Density
12.0M / mm²
45.1M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.175
1.4
OpenCL
3.0
3.0
CUDA
3.0
8.6
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
Dual-slot
Length
—
267 mm
10.5 inches
Height
—
112 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
4x DisplayPort 1.4a
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
GeForce 700M
Quadro Turing
Successor
GeForce 900M
Workstation Ada