AMD Radeon E8950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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AMD Radeon E8950

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 120.3GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1038MHz vs 1000MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8950 +54%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Oct 2014

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

735 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

1280

128

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

4.096 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

256.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Amethyst

GPU Name

GM204

E8950

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.3

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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