NVIDIA P106M vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

VS

NVIDIA P106M

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM P106M and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA P106M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock900MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 96.13GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

P106M +29%

2.974 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

P106M

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

May 2013

Mining GPUs

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.13GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

9

SM Count

-

1152

Shading Units

1280

72

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

41.31 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

92.95 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

46.48 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.974 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

92.95 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

Neptune

GP106-505-KC-A1

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

200 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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