NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon R7 M360

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M AMD Radeon R7 M360

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 M360 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R7 M360 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1125MHz vs 1038MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +207%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M360

0.864 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

Radeon R7 M360

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

May 2015

GeForce 900M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

1100 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1125 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.000 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

864.0 GFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

864.0 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

54.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Meso

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Meso XT (216-0864018)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.5

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