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    Radeon HD 7970M vs GeForce GTX 970M

    Radeon HD 7970M
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 24 Apr 2012
    Radeon HD 7970M
    GeForce GTX 970M
    Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 7 Oct 2014
    GeForce GTX 970M

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • Radeon HD 7970M
      100%
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      146%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7970M

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    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 970M

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 46% higher average synthetic performance.
    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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    GeForce GTX 970M

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 970M

    The GeForce GTX 970M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    Radeon HD 7970MGeForce GTX 970M
    GPU NameWimbledon (Wimbledon XT)vsGM204 (N16E-GT-A2)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size212 mm²vs398 mm²
    Transistors2,800 millionvs5,200 million
    Shaders1280vs1280
    Compute Units20vs10
    Core clock850 MHzvs1038 MHz
    ROPs32vs48
    TMUs80vs80

    Memory Configuration

    Radeon HD 7970MGeForce GTX 970M
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width256 bitvs192 bit
    Memory Speed1200 MHz
    4800 MHz effective    		vs1253 MHz
    5012 MHz effective
    Memory Size2048 Mbvs6144 Mb

    Additional details

    Radeon HD 7970MGeForce GTX 970M
    TDP100 wattsvs0 watts
    Release Date24 Apr 2012vs7 Oct 2014

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • Radeon HD 7970M
      27.20 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      49.80 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • Radeon HD 7970M
      68.00 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      83.00 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • Radeon HD 7970M
      153.60 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      120.30 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • Radeon HD 7970M
      2176.00 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      2657.30 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • Radeon HD 7970M
      6730
    • GeForce GTX 970M
      9860

    Points (higher is better)

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