AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock900MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1536GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)
992 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M 's Advantages
Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)