GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER vs Radeon HD 8970 OEM

GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Nov 2019
GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
Radeon HD 8970 OEM
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Jan 2013
Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER

150 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 8970 OEM .
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)
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 8970 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 1650 SUPER

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1650 SUPERRadeon HD 8970 OEM
GPU NameTU116 ()vsTahiti (Tahiti XT)
Fab Process12 nmvs28 nm
Die Size284 mm²vs352 mm²
Transistors6,600 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders1280vs2048
Compute Units20vs32
Core clock1530 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs80vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1650 SUPERRadeon HD 8970 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width128 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1500 MHz
12000 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1650 SUPERRadeon HD 8970 OEM
TDP100 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date22 Nov 2019vs8 Jan 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
    55.20 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8970 OEM
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
    138.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8970 OEM
    118.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
    192.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8970 OEM
    264.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER
    4416.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8970 OEM
    3789.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better