Radeon E8870 vs GeForce GTX 1650 TU116

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameTU116Saturn
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date7 July 2020 (4 years ago)29 September 2015 (9 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores896768
Core clock speed1410 MHz1000 MHz
Boost clock speed1590 MHzno data
Number of transistors6,600 million2,080 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate89.0448.00
Floating-point processing power2.849 TFLOPS1.536 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs5648

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16MXM-B (3.0)
Length229 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth192.0 GB/s96 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPortNo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_0)
Shader Model6.56.3
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.21.2.131
CUDA7.5-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 July 2020 29 September 2015
Chip lithography 12 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 75 Watt

GTX 1650 TU116 has an age advantage of 4 years, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

Radeon E8870, on the other hand, has 6.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1650 TU116 and Radeon E8870. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1650 TU116 is a desktop card while Radeon E8870 is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 TU116
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