AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA CMP 170HX
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Sep 2021
Generation
Solar System
Mining GPUs
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x4
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1140 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1410 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1458 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
16GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM2e
Memory Bus
256bit
4096bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
1493GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
4480
TMUs
80
280
ROPs
32
128
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
192 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
8 MB
SM Count
-
70
Tensor Cores
-
280
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
180.5 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
394.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
12.63 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
6.317 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
50.53 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
GA100
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
GA100-105F-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
54.2 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
826 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
250W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Suggested PSU
-
600 W
Power Connectors
-
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
N/A
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
5.1
N/A
CUDA
-
8.0