GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 7970

CORE STATE Tahiti

VRAM 3 GB

CLOCK SPEED —

TDP 250 W

BUS WIDTH 384 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2012

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970M

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1038 MHz

TDP —

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_opencl

34,541

18,991

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

472

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

18,516

passmark_directx_10

N/A

28

passmark_directx_11

N/A

42

passmark_directx_12

N/A

24

passmark_directx_9

N/A

99

passmark_g2d

N/A

381

passmark_g3d

N/A

5,704

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

2,289

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 7970

GTX 970M

Core Specs

Shading Units

2,048

1,280 -37.5%

Shaders

2,048

1,280 -37.5%

TMUs

128

80 -37.5%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

Compute Units

32

—

Clocks

Base Clock

—

924 MHz

Boost Clock

—

1038 MHz

GPU Clock

925 MHz

—

Memory Clock

1375 MHz 5.5 Gbps effective

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

3 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

3,072

6,144 +100.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

384 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

264.0 GB/s

120.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

768 KB

1536 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

49.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

3.789 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

947.2 GFLOPS (1:4)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

Power

TDP

250 W

—

TDP (W)

250

—

Suggested PSU

600 W

—

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Tahiti

GM204

Generation

Southern Islands (HD 7900)

GeForce 900M

Process Size

28 nm

28 nm

Transistors

4,313 million

5,200 million

Die Size

352 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

12.3M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.2.170

1.4

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

MXM Module

Length

275 mm 10.8 inches

—

Height

111 mm 4.4 inches

—

Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

MXM-B (3.0)

Other

Launch Price

549 USD

—

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Northern Islands

GeForce 800M

Successor

Sea Islands

GeForce 10 Mobile

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