AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9300M G to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

1264 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9300M G 's Advantages

Lower TDP (13W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +8761%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce 9300M G

0.026 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce 9300M G

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Feb 2008

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

1280

Shading Units

16

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.600 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.200 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

25.60 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

13W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

G86

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

NB9M-GS1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

127 mm²

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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