In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the AMD Radeon R6 8700P are very slightly better than the Nvidia GeForce GT 445M v2.

The Radeon R6 8700P has a 230 MHz higher core clock speed and the same number of Texture Mapping Units as the GT 445M. This results in the Radeon R6 8700P providing 5.5 GTexel/s better texturing performance. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.

The Radeon R6 8700P has a 230 MHz higher core clock speed than the GT 445M, but the GT 445M has 8 more Render Output Units than the Radeon R6 8700P. As a result, the GT 445M exhibits a 2.7 GPixel/s better Pixel Fill Rate than the Radeon R6 8700P. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.

The Radeon R6 8700P was released over three years more recently than the GT 445M, and so the Radeon R6 8700P is likely to have far better driver support, meaning it will be much more optimized and ultimately superior to the GT 445M when running the latest games.

The GT 445M has 1024 MB video memory, but the Radeon R6 8700P does not have an entry, so the two GPUs cannot be reliably compared in this area.

The Radeon R6 8700P has 384 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GT 445M v2 has 144. However, the actual shader performance of the Radeon R6 8700P is 261 and the actual shader performance of the GT 445M is 164. The Radeon R6 8700P having 97 better shader performance is not particularly notable, as altogether the GT 445M performs better when taking into account other relevant data.

The Radeon R6 8700P transistor size technology is 12 nm (nanometers) smaller than the GT 445M. This means that the Radeon R6 8700P is expected to run slightly cooler and achieve higher clock frequencies than the GT 445M. While they exhibit similar graphical performance, the Radeon R6 8700P should consume less power than the GT 445M.

The Radeon R6 8700P requires 35 Watts to run and the GeForce GT 445M v2 requires 35 Watts. The two GPUs require the same amount of wattage to run. As such, there is no need to worry about which will more significantly affect your yearly electricity bills.