AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 32.03GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950A 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M +51%

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950A

1.439 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

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GeForce GTX 950A

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Mar 2015

London

Generation

GeForce 900A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

993 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

32.03GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.98 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

44.96 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1439 GFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

44.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

GM107

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

N16P-GT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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