NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon Instinct MI8
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2014
Dec 2016
Generation
GeForce 900M
Radeon Instinct
Type
Mobile
Professional
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
924 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
-
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
HBM
Memory Bus
192bit
4096bit
Bandwidth
120.3GB/s
512.0GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1280
4096
TMUs
80
256
ROPs
48
64
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
2 MB
Compute Units
-
64
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
64.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
256.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.657 TFLOPS
8.192 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
83.04 GFLOPS
512.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
8.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Fiji
GPU Variant
N16E-GT-A2
Fiji XT CA(215-0862120)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 3.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
8.9 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
596 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
175W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
-
450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
2.1
Vulkan
1.3
1.2.170
CUDA
5.2
-
Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
6.5