AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA P106M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970M NVIDIA P106M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 4GB VRAM P106M 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 96.13GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA P106M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

P106M +36%

2.974 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

VS

P106M

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jan 2019

London

Generation

Mining GPUs

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

96.13GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

9

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1152

80

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

41.31 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.95 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

46.48 GFLOPS

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.974 TFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

92.95 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

GP106

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

GP106-505-KC-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

16 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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