AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA RTX 500 Mobile Ada Generation

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M NVIDIA RTX 500 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 4GB VRAM RTX 500 Mobile Ada Generation to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

NVIDIA RTX 500 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 125% (2025MHz vs 900MHz)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

RTX 500 Mobile Ada Generation +259%

8.294 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

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RTX 500 Mobile Ada Generation

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Solar System

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1485 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

2025 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

16

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

2048

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

64

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

12 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.80 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

129.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

8.294 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.294 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

129.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

AD107

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

18.9 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

159 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

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

8.9

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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