AMD Radeon R9 M295X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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AMD Radeon R9 M295X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M295X 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 R9 M295X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock1038MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M295X +11%

2.961 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M295X

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Nov 2014

Release Date

Oct 2014

Crystal System

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

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

160.0GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1280

128

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

23.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

92.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

2.961 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.961 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

185.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GM204

Amethyst XT

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.3

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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