NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2016
May 2013
Generation
GeForce 900M
Solar System
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1050 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1178 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Shading Units
1664
1280
TMUs
104
80
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Compute Units
-
20
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
75.39 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
122.5 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.920 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
122.5 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
GM204
Neptune
GPU Variant
N16E-GXX-A1
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.2 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
398 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
148W
100W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
-
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
CUDA
5.2
-
Shader Model
6.4
5.1