NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega M GL to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1038MHz vs 1011MHz)

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +2%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega M GL

2.588 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

Radeon RX Vega M GL

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Feb 2018

GeForce 900M

Generation

Vega

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

IGP

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

931 MHz

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

1011 MHz

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

192bit

Memory Bus

1024bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

1280

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.35 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.88 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.588 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.588 TFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

161.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

65W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Polaris 22

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

VegaM XL (D715A714)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

5 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

208 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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