GeForce GTX 970M vs Radeon HD 8770 OEM

GeForce GTX 970M
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 7 Oct 2014
GeForce GTX 970M
Radeon HD 8770 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Sep 2013
Radeon HD 8770 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970M

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8770 OEM

Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports FreeSync
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports TrueAudio
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 970M

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970M

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 970MRadeon HD 8770 OEM
GPU NameGM204 (N16E-GT-A2)vsBonaire (Bonaire XT)
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size398 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors5,200 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders1280vs896
Compute Units10vs14
Core clock1038 MHzvs1050 MHz
ROPs48vs16
TMUs80vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 970MRadeon HD 8770 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 970MRadeon HD 8770 OEM
TDP0 wattsvs85 watts
Release Date7 Oct 2014vs2 Sep 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    49.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8770 OEM
    16.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    83.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8770 OEM
    58.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    120.30 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8770 OEM
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    2657.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8770 OEM
    1882.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better