GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

CORE STATE Neptune

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 900 MHz

TDP 100 W

BUS WIDTH 256 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 1.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2013

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

CORE STATE TU116

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1785 MHz

TDP 125 W

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Turing

nm

PROCESS 12 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2019

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

1,278

geekbench_opencl

N/A

62,664

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

59,933

passmark_directx_10

N/A

65

passmark_directx_11

N/A

104

passmark_directx_12

N/A

50

passmark_directx_9

N/A

189

passmark_g2d

N/A

805

passmark_g3d

N/A

12,699

passmark_gpu_compute

N/A

5,076

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

HD 8970M

GTX 1660 SUPER

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,280

1,408 +10.0%

Shaders

1,280

1,408 +10.0%

TMUs

80

88 +10.0%

ROPs

32

48 +50.0%

Compute Units

20

—

SM Count

—

22

Clocks

Base Clock

850 MHz

1530 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1785 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz 4.8 Gbps effective

1750 MHz 14 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

6,144 +50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Memory Bus

256 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

336.0 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB (per SM)

L2 Cache

512 KB

1536 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

85.68 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.304 TFLOPS

5.027 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

144.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

157.1 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

—

10.05 TFLOPS (2:1)

Power

TDP

100 W

125 W

TDP (W)

100

125 +25.0%

Suggested PSU

—

300 W

Power Connectors

—

1x 8-pin

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Turing

GPU Name

Neptune

TU116

Generation

Solar System (HD 8900M)

GeForce 16

Process Size

28 nm

12 nm

Transistors

2,800 million

6,600 million

Die Size

212 mm²

284 mm²

Foundry

TSMC

TSMC

Density

13.2M / mm²

23.2M / 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

—

7.5

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

MXM Module

Dual-slot

Length

—

229 mm 9 inches

Height

—

111 mm 4.4 inches

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.01x DisplayPort 1.4a

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Other

Launch Price

—

229 USD

Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

London

GeForce 10

Successor

Gem System

GeForce 20

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