AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 256MB VRAM GeForce Go 6800 Ultra to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra 's Advantages

Lower TDP (89W vs 100W)

Score

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Feb 2005

Solar System

Generation

GeForce Go 6

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

600 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

12

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.400 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

89W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

NV41

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

GO6800 U

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

130 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.19 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

225 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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