GeForce GTX 670M vs Radeon R9 M390X

GeForce GTX 670M
Memory: 1526Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 22 Mar 2012
GeForce GTX 670M
Radeon R9 M390X
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 M390X

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 670M

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R9 M390X

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 M390X

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 M390X

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 670MRadeon R9 M390X
GPU NameGF114 (N13E-GS1-LP-A1)vsAmethyst (Amethyst XT)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size332 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistors1,950 millionvs5,000 million
Shaders336vs2048
Compute Units7vs32
Core clock598 MHzvs723 MHz
ROPs24vs32
TMUs56vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 670MRadeon R9 M390X
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed750 MHz
3000 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size1526 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 670MRadeon R9 M390X
TDP75 wattsvs100 watts
Release Date22 Mar 2012vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 670M
    8.37 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 M390X
    23.14 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 670M
    33.50 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 M390X
    92.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 670M
    72.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 M390X
    160.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 670M
    803.70 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 M390X
    2961.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

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