AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 27% (1140MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +102%

4.669 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

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GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Sep 2015

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GM204

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

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 (6.4)

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