AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 570M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

944 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +198%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 570M

0.773 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce GTX 570M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jun 2011

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 500M

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

750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

7

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

336

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.050 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

772.8 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

64.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GF114

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N12E-GT-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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

2.1

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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