AMD Radeon R9 M385 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M385

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M385 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 R9 M385 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1038MHz vs 1000MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M385

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M +48%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M385

VS

GeForce GTX 970M

Graphics Card

May 2015

Release Date

Oct 2014

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

924 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1038 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

76.80GB/s

Bandwidth

120.3GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

1280

56

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

48

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.82 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

83.04 GTexel/s

-

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.657 TFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

83.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Strato

GPU Name

GM204

Strato XT

GPU Variant

N16E-GT-A2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

160 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)

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon R9 M385 vs AMD Radeon R5 M330

2

AMD Radeon R9 M385 vs AMD Radeon Pro WX 4170 Mobile

3

AMD Radeon R9 M385 vs AMD FirePro M4150

4

AMD Radeon R9 M385 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X2300

5

AMD Radeon R9 M385 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4870

6

AMD Radeon R9 M385 vs AMD Radeon HD 7530M

7

AMD Radeon R9 M385 vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 20

8

AMD Radeon R9 M385 vs AMD Radeon R7 M350

9

AMD Radeon R9 M385 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v

10

AMD Radeon R9 M385 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max Q

Related News

1

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production

2

Intel Wildcat Lake Appears on Shipping List with FCBGA1516 Socket, Poised to Replace Alder Lake-N

3

The Commencement of ARM and Qualcomm Licensing Dispute Trial: Potential Major Impact on PC Market

4

NVIDIA Allegedly Equips RTX 5080 with 30Gbps Memory Speed, Other Models to Feature 28Gbps

5

Intel Reports High Return Rates for Devices Featuring Snapdragon X Series; Qualcomm Counters with 'Industry Standard' Claim

6

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

7

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

8

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

9

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

10

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage