AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 175W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 122% (2000MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (16GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

9472 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile +1766%

43.01 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2025

Solar System

Generation

GeForce 50 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1500 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

1.01TB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

84

1280

Shading Units

10752

80

TMUs

336

32

ROPs

128

-

Tensor Cores

336

-

RT Cores

84

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

256.0 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

672.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

43.01 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

43.01 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

672.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

175W

-

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

GB203

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

4 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

377 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

10.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.8

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