Wii U GPU vs GeForce GTX 880M SLI

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking250not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency7.54no data
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameN15E-GX-A2Latte
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date12 March 2014 (10 years ago)18 November 2012 (11 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 cores3072160
Core clock speed954 MHz550 MHz
Number of transistors2x 3540 Million880 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)206 Watt33 Watt
Texture fill rateno data8.800
Floating-point processing powerno data0.176 TFLOPS
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data16

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataIGP
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR5DDR3
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB2 GB
Memory bus width2x 256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed5000 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data12.8 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 Connectorsno dataNo outputs

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Optimus+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 11_0)N/A
Shader Modelno data5.0
OpenGLno dataN/A
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 March 2014 18 November 2012
Chip lithography 28 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 206 Watt 33 Watt

GTX 880M SLI has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 42.9% more advanced lithography process.

Wii U GPU, on the other hand, has 524.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 880M SLI and Wii U GPU. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M SLI
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