NVIDIA GeForce MX150 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX150

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX150 and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce MX150 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 70% (1532MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX150

1.177 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M +95%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce MX150

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

May 2017

Release Date

May 2013

GeForce MX

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1532 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

3

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

24.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

36.77 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

18.38 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1177 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

36.77 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

25W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Neptune

GP108-650-A1 (N17S-G1-A1)

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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