AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 320M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 25.28GB/s)

1256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +4247%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 320M

0.053 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce GT 320M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Mar 2010

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 300M

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

790 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

25.28GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

3

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

24

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

52.80 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GT216

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.486 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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