AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 315M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 315M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 315M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +5807%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce 315M

0.039 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce 315M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2011

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 300M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

2

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

16

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.424 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.848 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

38.78 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GT218

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N11M-GE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

14W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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