Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce GT 645M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce GT 645M
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
GeForce GT 645M
957
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce GT 645M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Neptune
N13P-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
March 2012
Bus support
-
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
Up to 710 MHz
CUDA cores
-
384
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
544.5 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
1,270 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
384
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
32 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
22.7 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3\GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
Up to 64.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
HDMI
-
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
Up to 2048x1536
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
3D Blu-Ray
-
+
Optimus
-
+