AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M 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 11 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (38W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +772%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce GTS 260M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jun 2009

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 200M

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

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

1280

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

38W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GT215

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N10E-GS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

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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