Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce GT 1030 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce GT 1030
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
GeForce GT 1030
2539
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce GT 1030
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Neptune
N17P-G1
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2013
May 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1670 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1228 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
1,127 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
384
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
35.23
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
48.06 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMI
-
+
G-SYNC support
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
VR Ready
-
+