NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470M 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 GTX 470M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 470M

0.616 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M +274%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470M

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 400M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

6

SM Count

-

288

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

24

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

384 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.420 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

25.68 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

616.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

51.36 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GF104

GPU Name

Neptune

N11E-GT

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Fermi

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.95 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

332 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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