NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GS 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 9600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB 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 8970M +3239%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GS

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 9M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

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

28.80 GPixel/s

6.880 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

68.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

Neptune

NB9P-GE2

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

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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