AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 480M 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 late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +285%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480M

0.598 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

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GeForce GTX 480M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

May 2010

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

11

1280

Shading Units

352

80

TMUs

44

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.350 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.70 GTexel/s

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2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

598.4 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

74.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GF100

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N11E-GTX-A3

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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