AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1379MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q +159%

5.648 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

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GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jun 2017

London

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1215 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.26 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.5 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

88.26 GFLOPS

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.648 TFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

176.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

GP104

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

N17E-G2-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

314 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

115W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

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

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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