NVIDIA GeForce 945M vs AMD Radeon R9 M470X

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 945M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 945M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 8% (1189MHz vs 1100MHz)

AMD Radeon R9 M470X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (76.80GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 945M

0.913 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470X +115%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce 945M

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Radeon R9 M470X

Graphics Card

Apr 2016

Release Date

May 2016

GeForce 900M

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1189 MHz

Boost Clock

1100 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.02GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

14

384

Shading Units

896

24

TMUs

56

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.512 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

28.54 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

913.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

28.54 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM108

GPU Name

Emerald

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GPU Variant

Emerald XT

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.08 billion

Unknown

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

23W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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