NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 128MB VRAM Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Nov 2007

GeForce 900M

Generation

M5x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

-

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

-

1280

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

4

48

ROPs

4

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.592 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.592 GTexel/s

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

M56

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

3.0

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