Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce 8800 GTX - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce 8800 GTX
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
GeForce 8800 GTX
608
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce 8800 GTX
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Neptune
G80
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2013
November 2006
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
2x 6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
576 MHz
CUDA cores
-
575
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
345.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
681 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
128
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
155 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
36.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
768 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
86.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A