AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 770M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (900MHz vs 797MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 96.19GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +50%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 770M

1.53 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce GTX 770M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

May 2013

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

706 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

797 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

96.19GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

960

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

15.94 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

63.76 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.530 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

63.76 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GK106

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N14E-GS-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

221 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

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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