NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

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NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GTS 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 9700M GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9700M GTS

0.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M +1714%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce 9700M GTS

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 9M

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

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.480 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

12.72 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

127.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

60W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Neptune

NB9E-GS

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

240 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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