AMD Radeon R5 M315 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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AMD Radeon R5 M315

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M315 and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M315 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M315

0.745 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M +256%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M315

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Oct 2014

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

924 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.760 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

23.28 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

745.0 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

745.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

46.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Meso

GPU Name

GM204

Meso LE (216-0864046)

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.55 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

125 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.7 (6.4)

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