AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2012
Mar 2015
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 900M
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1097 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1176 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
80.19GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
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Shading Units
2048
640
TMUs
128
40
ROPs
32
16
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
18.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
47.04 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
1.505 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
47.04 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
GM107
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2(215-0821065)
N16P-GX-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
1.87 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
148 mm²
Board Design
TDP
300W
75W
Suggested PSU
700 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
CUDA
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5.0
Benchmark
Blender
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.