ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4860

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 4860 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 4860

0.832 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M +219%

2.657 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 4860

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Oct 2014

M9x

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

924 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

20.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

-

832.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

166.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

M97

GPU Name

GM204

M97 M2 XT (216-0731000)

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

TeraScale

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.826 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

137 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

4.1

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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