NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon R9 M380
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2014
May 2015
Generation
GeForce 900M
Gem System
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
924 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1253 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
192bit
128bit
Bandwidth
120.3GB/s
96.00GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1280
768
TMUs
80
48
ROPs
48
16
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
256 KB
Compute Units
-
12
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
16.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
48.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.657 TFLOPS
1.536 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
83.04 GFLOPS
96.00 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Strato
GPU Variant
N16E-GT-A2
Strato PRO
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
2.08 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
160 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
Unknown
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
None
-
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