NVIDIA RTX A2000 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2021
May 2013
Generation
Ampere-MW
Solar System
Type
Professional
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1215 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1687 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
SM Count
20
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Shading Units
2560
1280
TMUs
80
80
ROPs
48
32
Tensor Cores
80
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RT Cores
20
—
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
—
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
80.98 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
135.0 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
8.637 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
8.637 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
135.0 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GA107
Neptune
Architecture
Ampere
GCN 1.0
Foundry
Samsung
TSMC
Process Size
8 nm
28 nm
Transistors
8.7 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
200 mm²
212 mm²
GPU Variant
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Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Board Design
TDP
95W
100W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
8.6
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Shader Model
6.8
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.