GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and Radeon HD 8970M - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile
Radeon HD 8970M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
N16E-GXX SLI
Neptune
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
September 2015
May 2013
Interface
-
PCIe 3.0 x16
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1228 MHz
900 MHz
Core clock speed
1126 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
2,304 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
10400 Million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
4096
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
330 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
72.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2x 8 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3500 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12_1
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.2.131