NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon RX 560D
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Oct 2014
Jul 2017
Generation
GeForce 900M
Polaris
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
924 MHz
1090 MHz
Boost Clock
1038 MHz
1175 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
896
TMUs
80
56
ROPs
48
16
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1536 KB
1024 KB
Compute Units
-
14
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
49.82 GPixel/s
18.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
83.04 GTexel/s
65.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.657 TFLOPS
2.106 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
83.04 GFLOPS
131.6 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.106 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Polaris 21
GPU Variant
N16E-GT-A2
Polaris 21 XL
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
3 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
123 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
65W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
None
None
Suggested PSU
-
250 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
CUDA
5.2
-
Shader Model
6.7 (6.4)
6.4