AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 930MX

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

NVIDIA GeForce 930MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 2GB VRAM GeForce 930MX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 930MX 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1020MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (17W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +194%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce 930MX

0.783 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce 930MX

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Mar 2016

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

952 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1020 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.160 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.48 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.4 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.48 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

17W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GM108

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N16S-GMR

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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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