AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500M GS 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

1248 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +3677%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500M GS

0.061 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce 9500M GS

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Feb 2008

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

32

80

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.800 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

7.600 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

60.80 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

G84

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

NB9P-GE1-A2

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

80 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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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