AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

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

1184 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (28W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M +806%

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250M

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

VS

GeForce GTS 250M

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jun 2009

London

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

1280

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.00 GTexel/s

-

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

28W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

GT215

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

N10E-GE-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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