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    GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile vs Radeon HD 8970M

    GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 15 Aug 2016
    GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
    Radeon HD 8970M
    Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 14 May 2013
    Radeon HD 8970M

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
      259%
    • Radeon HD 8970M
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 159% higher average synthetic performance.
    Supports PhysX
    Supports G-Sync
    Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8970M

    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    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile

    The GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1070 MobileRadeon HD 8970M
    GPU NameGP104 ()vsNeptune (Neptune XT)
    Fab Process16 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size314 mm²vs212 mm²
    Transistors7,200 millionvs2,800 million
    Shaders2048vs1280
    Compute Units16vs20
    Core clock1442 MHzvs850 MHz
    ROPs64vs32
    TMUs128vs80

    Memory Configuration

    GeForce GTX 1070 MobileRadeon HD 8970M
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
    Memory Speed2002 MHz
    8008 MHz effective    		vs1200 MHz
    4800 MHz effective
    Memory Size8192 Mbvs4096 Mb

    Additional details

    GeForce GTX 1070 MobileRadeon HD 8970M
    TDP120 wattsvs100 watts
    Release Date15 Aug 2016vs14 May 2013

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
      92.30 GP/s
    • Radeon HD 8970M
      28.80 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
      184.60 GT/s
    • Radeon HD 8970M
      72.00 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
      256.30 GB/s
    • Radeon HD 8970M
      153.60 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
      5906.00 GFLOPs
    • Radeon HD 8970M
      2304.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • GeForce GTX 1070 Mobile
      18650
    • Radeon HD 8970M
      7190

    Points (higher is better)

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