NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon E8950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

AMD Radeon E8950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1038MHz vs 1000MHz)

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950 +54%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Sep 2015

GeForce 900M

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

735 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

95W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Amethyst

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

E8950

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

5 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.3

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