NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon E9172 MXM

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M AMD Radeon E9172 MXM

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 2GB VRAM Radeon E9172 MXM 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 48.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon E9172 MXM 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1219MHz vs 1038MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +112%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon E9172 MXM

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

Radeon E9172 MXM

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Oct 2017

GeForce 900M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

1124 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1219 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

1280

Shading Units

512

80

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.50 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Lexa

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

E9170

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.4

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