AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 160M 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 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M +1033%

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 160M

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

VS

GeForce GTS 160M

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Mar 2009

London

Generation

GeForce 100M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

64

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

G94

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

N10E-GS1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

60W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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