GeForce GTX 860M vs Radeon HD 7970M

GeForce GTX 860M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 13 Jan 2014
GeForce GTX 860M
Radeon HD 7970M
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 24 Apr 2012
Radeon HD 7970M

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 860M
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7970M
    133%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 860M

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7970M

Around 33% higher average synthetic performance.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7970M

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7970M

The Radeon HD 7970M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 860MRadeon HD 7970M
GPU NameGM107 (N15P-GX-A1)vsWimbledon (Wimbledon XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size148 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors1,870 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders640vs1280
Compute Units5vs20
Core clock1020 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs40vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 860MRadeon HD 7970M
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 860MRadeon HD 7970M
TDP75 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date13 Jan 2014vs24 Apr 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 860M
    16.32 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7970M
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 860M
    40.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7970M
    68.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 860M
    80.20 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7970M
    153.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 860M
    1305.60 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7970M
    2176.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 860M
    5040
  • Radeon HD 7970M
    6730

Points (higher is better)

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