AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Jan 2016
Generation
Solar System
GeForce 900M
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
935 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1150 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
128bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
80.19GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
—
Shading Units
1280
1024
TMUs
80
64
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
36.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
73.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
2.355 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
73.60 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
GM206S
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
N16E-GR-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
2.94 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
228 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
Unknown
Outputs
No outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
—
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.7
CUDA
—
5.2
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
—
1,800
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.