NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile AMD Radeon HD 7970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1140MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +114%

4.669 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 7970M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Apr 2012

GeForce 900M

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1064 MHz

Base Clock

-

1140 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

2048

Shading Units

1280

128

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

72.96 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

145.9 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.669 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

145.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Wimbledon

N16E-GXX-A1

GPU Variant

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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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