AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 755M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 755M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +176%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 755M Mac Edition

0.833 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

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GeForce GT 755M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Nov 2013

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.680 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

34.72 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

833.3 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.72 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GK107

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

GT 755M

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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