AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA RTX A4500 Max-Q
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Mar 2022
Generation
Solar System
Quadro Ampere-M
Type
Mobile
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
510 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1215 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
448.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
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Shading Units
1280
5888
TMUs
80
184
ROPs
32
96
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
4 MB
SM Count
—
46
Tensor Cores
—
184
RT Cores
—
46
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
116.6 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
223.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
14.31 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
223.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
14.31 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
GA104
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
392 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
80W
Outputs
No outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
—
None
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
6.7
CUDA
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8.6
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.