NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon HD 6530M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

AMD Radeon HD 6530M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6530M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

880 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +638%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6530M

0.36 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

Radeon HD 6530M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Nov 2010

GeForce 900M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

-

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

-

1280

Shading Units

400

80

TMUs

20

48

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.000 GTexel/s

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

360.0 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

26W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Capilano

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Capilano LE

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.0

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