NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon HD 8590M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M AMD Radeon HD 8590M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8590M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 26% (1038MHz vs 825MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 36.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +403%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8590M

0.528 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

Radeon HD 8590M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Mar 2013

GeForce 900M

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

750 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

825 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

36.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

20

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

528.0 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Sun

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.1

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