AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

VS

AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon E9173 PCIe 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 E9173 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1219MHz vs 1038MHz)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E9173 PCIe

1.248 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M +112%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon E9173 PCIe

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

Oct 2017

Release Date

Oct 2014

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1124 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

1219 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.50 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

39.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

1248 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1248 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

78.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

Unknown

-

1x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

GM204

E9170

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.4

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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