AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Feb 2015
Oct 2014
Generation
Gem System
GeForce 900M
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
900 MHz
924 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1038 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1253 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
192bit
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
120.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
14
-
Shading Units
896
1280
TMUs
56
80
ROPs
16
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
1536 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
16.00 GPixel/s
49.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
56.00 GTexel/s
83.04 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.792 TFLOPS
2.657 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
112.0 GFLOPS
83.04 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Saturn
GM204
GPU Variant
Saturn XT(216-0843024)
N16E-GT-A2
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
Unknown
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
-
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
Shader Model
6.5
6.7 (6.4)
CUDA
-
5.2