AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX150

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

NVIDIA GeForce MX150

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX150 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 48.06GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX150 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 70% (1532MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +95%

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce MX150

1.177 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce MX150

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

May 2017

Solar System

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1532 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.51 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.77 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

18.38 GFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1177 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

36.77 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GP108

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

GP108-650-A1 (N17S-G1-A1)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

74 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

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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