AMD Radeon R9 M470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

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AMD Radeon R9 M470

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M470 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Mobile 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1140MHz vs 1000MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M470

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile +203%

4.669 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470

VS

GeForce GTX 980 Mobile

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Sep 2015

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

1064 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

1140 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

72.96 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

145.9 GTexel/s

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1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.669 TFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

145.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

GM204

Emerald PRO

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

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)

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