AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280M 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 2 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +516%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280M

0.374 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce GTX 280M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Mar 2009

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-IV

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

128

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.360 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

374.5 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

G92

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N10E-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

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

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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