GeForce GTX 970M vs Radeon HD 7990

GeForce GTX 970M
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
Release date: 7 Oct 2014
GeForce GTX 970M
Radeon HD 7990
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 24 Apr 2013
Radeon HD 7990

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    100%
  • Radeon HD 7990
    187%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 7990

Around 87% 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7990

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7990

The Radeon HD 7990 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 970MRadeon HD 7990
GPU NameGM204 (N16E-GT-A2)vsMalta ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size398 mm²vs365 mm²
Transistors5,200 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders1280vs2048
Compute Units10vs32
Core clock1038 MHzvs950 MHz
ROPs48vs32
TMUs80vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 970MRadeon HD 7990
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs384 bit x2
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 970MRadeon HD 7990
TDP0 wattsvs375 watts
Release Date7 Oct 2014vs24 Apr 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    49.80 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    60.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    83.00 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    244.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    120.30 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7990
    576.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    2657.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7990
    7782.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • GeForce GTX 970M
    9860
  • Radeon HD 7990
    18530

Points (higher is better)