NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon R7 A260

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M AMD Radeon R7 A260

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 A260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 6% (1038MHz vs 980MHz)

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +253%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 A260

0.752 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

Radeon R7 A260

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2014

GeForce 900M

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

980 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

7.840 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

23.52 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

752.6 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Topaz

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Topaz XT (216-0858020)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2.170

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.5

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