AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9800M GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

1168 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +722%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800M GTX

0.28 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce 9800M GTX

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jul 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

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

1280

Shading Units

112

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.00 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

280.0 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

G92

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

NB9E-GTX

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

324 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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