AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 560M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 60.00GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M +265%

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 560M

0.595 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

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GeForce GTX 560M

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

May 2011

London

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

625 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

60.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

192

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.200 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

595.2 GFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

49.60 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

GF116

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

N12E-GS-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.17 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

238 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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