AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

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AMD Radeon HD 7970M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M 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 80.19GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1176MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M +44%

2.176 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M

1.505 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

VS

GeForce GTX 960M

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Mar 2015

London

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1097 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/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

18.82 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

47.04 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

GM107

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

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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