NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850M 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 850M 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Lower TDP (45W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 850M

1.155 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M +99%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850M

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Mar 2014

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce 800M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1001 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

32.03GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

640

Shading Units

1280

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

14.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

36.08 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

1155 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

36.08 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

45W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

GM107

GPU Name

Neptune

N15P-GT-A1

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Maxwell

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.87 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

148 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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