AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA T600 Max-Q

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 4GB VRAM T600 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA T600 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 55% (1395MHz vs 900MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (40W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

T600 Max Q +8%

2.5 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

T600 Max Q

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Apr 2021

Solar System

Generation

Quadro Turing-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

930 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1395 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

14

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

896

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

44.64 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

78.12 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

5.000 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.500 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

78.12 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

TU117

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

40W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

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

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CUDA

7.5

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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