AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M +22%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

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GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Oct 2014

London

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

924 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

GM204

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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