NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2014
Jun 2012
Generation
GeForce 900M
Southern Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
924 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
384bit
Bandwidth
120.3GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1280
2048
TMUs
80
128
ROPs
48
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
768 KB
Compute Units
—
32
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
33.60 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
134.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.657 TFLOPS
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
83.04 GFLOPS
1075 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Tahiti
GPU Variant
N16E-GT-A2
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
352 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
300W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
700 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.2
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Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.