AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1176MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +53%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

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GeForce GTX 960M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Mar 2015

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1097 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.82 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

47.04 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GM107

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

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

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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