NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 470 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1074MHz vs 1038MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 470 Mobile +65%

4.399 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

Radeon RX 470 Mobile

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Aug 2016

GeForce 900M

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

926 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1074 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/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

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

34.37 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

137.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.399 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.399 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

274.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

85W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Ellesmere

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Ellesmere PRO

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

6.4

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