NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

GPU · Specs Compare

Products
GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 NVIDIA · 2014-09
GPU AMD Radeon HD 7970M AMD · 2012-04
Graphics Card
Release Date
Sep 2014
Apr 2012
Generation
GeForce 900
London
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1127 MHz
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Boost Clock
1216 MHz
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Memory Clock
1753 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
2048
1280
TMUs
128
80
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
27.20 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
2.176 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
136.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Wimbledon
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
Wimbledon XT(216-0836036)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
165W
100W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None
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
6.4
5.1
▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.