AMD Radeon R9 M470 vs NVIDIA GeForce 930A

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470 and 2GB VRAM GeForce 930A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M470 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1000MHz vs 941MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M470 +112%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 930A

0.723 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470

VS

GeForce 930A

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Mar 2015

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

928 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

941 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.528 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

22.58 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

722.7 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

22.58 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

GM108

Emerald PRO

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

Unknown

160 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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