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    Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce GTX 950 LP

    Radeon HD 8970M
    Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 14 May 2013
    Radeon HD 8970M
    GeForce GTX 950 LP
    Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
    Release date: 14 May 2016
    GeForce GTX 950 LP
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    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • Radeon HD 8970M
      100%
    • GeForce GTX 950 LP
      118%

    Relative performance

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    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950 LP

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Around 18% 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    Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 950 LP

    HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950 LP

    The GeForce GTX 950 LP is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    Radeon HD 8970MGeForce GTX 950 LP
    GPU NameNeptune (Neptune XT)vsGM206 (GM206-251-A1)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size212 mm²vs228 mm²
    Transistors2,800 millionvs2,940 million
    Shaders1280vs768
    Compute Units20vs6
    Core clock850 MHzvs1024 MHz
    ROPs32vs32
    TMUs80vs48

    Memory Configuration

    Radeon HD 8970MGeForce GTX 950 LP
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed1200 MHz
    4800 MHz effective    		vs1653 MHz
    6612 MHz effective
    Memory Size4096 Mbvs2048 Mb

    Additional details

    Radeon HD 8970MGeForce GTX 950 LP
    TDP100 wattsvs75 watts
    Release Date14 May 2013vs14 May 2016

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • Radeon HD 8970M
      28.80 GP/s
    • GeForce GTX 950 LP
      32.80 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • Radeon HD 8970M
      72.00 GT/s
    • GeForce GTX 950 LP
      49.20 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • Radeon HD 8970M
      153.60 GB/s
    • GeForce GTX 950 LP
      105.80 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • Radeon HD 8970M
      2304.00 GFLOPs
    • GeForce GTX 950 LP
      1572.90 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    3DMark 11

    • Radeon HD 8970M
      7190
    • GeForce GTX 950 LP
      8490

    Points (higher is better)

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