AMD Radeon R7 M445 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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AMD Radeon R7 M445

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R7 M445 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 R7 M445 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1038MHz vs 920MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 32.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 M445

0.588 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M +351%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M445

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Oct 2014

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

920 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

192bit

32.00GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

1280

20

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

128 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

7.360 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

18.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

588.8 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

588.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

36.80 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 PRO (216-0864032)

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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