NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 93% (1734MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile +285%

8.878 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 10 Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1556 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1734 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1251 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5X

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.3GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

20

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

2560

Shading Units

1280

160

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

111.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

277.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

138.7 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

8.878 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

277.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP104

GPU Name

Neptune

N17E-G3-A1

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

7.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

314 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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