GeForce GTX 860M vs Radeon HD 7970M
Summary
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7970M
The Radeon HD 7970M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 860M | | Radeon HD 7970M | |
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GPU Name | GM107 (N15P-GX-A1) | vs | Wimbledon (Wimbledon XT) |
Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
Die Size | 148 mm² | vs | 212 mm² |
Transistors | 1,870 million | vs | 2,800 million |
Shaders | 640 | vs | 1280 |
Compute Units | 5 | vs | 20 |
Core clock | 1020 MHz | vs | 850 MHz |
ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
TMUs | 40 | vs | 80 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 860M | | Radeon HD 7970M | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
Memory Speed | 1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective | vs | 1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 860M | | Radeon HD 7970M | |
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TDP | 75 watts | vs | 100 watts |
Release Date | 13 Jan 2014 | vs | 24 Apr 2012 |
GeForce GTX 860M
16.32 GP/s
Radeon HD 7970M
27.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 860M
40.80 GT/s
Radeon HD 7970M
68.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GTX 860M
80.20 GB/s
Radeon HD 7970M
153.60 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GTX 860M
1305.60 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7970M
2176.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
GeForce GTX 860M
5040
Radeon HD 7970M
6730
Points (higher is better)