GeForce GTX 970M and Radeon E8950 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970M
Radeon E8950
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
GPU code name
GM204
Amethyst
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
October 2014
September 2015
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1038 MHz
1000 MHz
Core clock speed
924 MHz
735 MHz
CUDA cores
1280
-
Floating-point performance
2,657 gflops
4,096 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
5,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
95 Watt
Texture fill rate
83.04
128.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
120 GB/s
192.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.3
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-