AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 965M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1150MHz vs 900MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 965M +2%

2.355 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce GTX 965M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2016

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

935 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1150 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

36.80 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

73.60 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.355 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

73.60 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GM206S

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N16E-GR-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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