NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

AMD Radeon HD 7970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GS and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600M GS

0.069 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M +3053%

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GS

VS

Radeon HD 7970M

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 9M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

1280

16

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.440 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

6.880 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

68.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

Wimbledon

NB9P-GE2

GPU Variant

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

121 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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