AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GRID M60 8Q
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Aug 2015
Generation
Solar System
GRID
Type
Mobile
Professional
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
557 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1178 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
160.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
2048
TMUs
80
128
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
75.39 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
150.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
4.825 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
150.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
GM204
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
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Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
225W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Suggested PSU
-
550 W
Power Connectors
-
1x 8-pin
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
6.4
CUDA
-
5.2