AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970M

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M +3053%

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GS

0.069 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

VS

GeForce 9600M GS

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jun 2008

London

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

1280

Shading Units

32

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.440 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.880 GTexel/s

-

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

68.80 GFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

G96C

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

NB9P-GE2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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