AMD Radeon E9550 MXM vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2016
Sep 2014
Generation
Embedded
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1120 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1266 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
36
—
Shading Units
2304
1664
TMUs
144
104
ROPs
32
56
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
2 MB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
40.51 GPixel/s
65.97 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
182.3 GTexel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
5.834 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
5.834 TFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
364.6 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Ellesmere
GM204
GPU Variant
Ellesmere XT
GM204-200-A1
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
95W
148W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
2x 6-pin
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
CUDA
—
5.2
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
3,646
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
—
1,683
OctaneBench
—
77
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
—
15
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
—
30
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
—
40
Blender
—
305
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.