NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon HD 8670M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

AMD Radeon HD 8670M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8670M 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 6% (1038MHz vs 975MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +325%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8670M

0.624 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

Radeon HD 8670M

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

925 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

-

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

20

48

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.800 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.50 GTexel/s

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

624.0 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

39.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Sun

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Sun S3 XT (216-0841009)

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

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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