AMD Radeon R9 M470 vs NVIDIA GeForce 945M

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M470

NVIDIA GeForce 945M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 945M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M470 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 16.02GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 945M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 19% (1189MHz vs 1000MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M470 +68%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 945M

0.913 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470

VS

GeForce 945M

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Apr 2016

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1006 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1189 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.512 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.54 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

913.2 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

28.54 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

23W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

GM108

Emerald PRO

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

Unknown

160 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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