NVIDIA GeForce 800A vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 800A

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 800A and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 800A 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Lower TDP (15W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 800A

0.091 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M +2431%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce 800A

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 800A

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

1

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

950.0 MPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

3.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

91.20 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

7.600 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

15W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GF119

GPU Name

Neptune

-

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.292 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

79 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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