NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9700M GT

0.099 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +1567%

1.651 TFLOPS

GeForce 9700M GT

VS

Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 9M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

768

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

10.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

-

99.20 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

45W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G96

GPU Name

Saturn

NB9E-GE

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

144 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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