AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA CMP 90HX
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Jul 2021
Generation
Solar System
Mining GPUs
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x4
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1500 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1710 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1188 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
10GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Memory Bus
256bit
320bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
760.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
—
Shading Units
1280
6400
TMUs
80
200
ROPs
32
80
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
5 MB
SM Count
—
50
Tensor Cores
—
200
RT Cores
—
50
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
136.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
342.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
21.89 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
342.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
21.89 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
GA102
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
GA102-100-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
28.3 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
628 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
320W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Suggested PSU
—
700 W
Power Connectors
—
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.8
CUDA
—
8.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.