GeForce GTX 970M and Radeon Vega 8 Embedded - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 970M
Radeon Vega 8 Embedded
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name
GM204
Raven
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
October 2014
April 2018
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1038 MHz
1101 MHz
Core clock speed
924 MHz
300 MHz
CUDA cores
1280
-
Floating-point performance
2,657 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
5,200 million
4,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
512
Power consumption (TDP)
unknown
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
83.04
35.23
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
192 Bit
System Shared
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
120 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_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
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
+
-