Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB Max-Q - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB Max-Q
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Neptune
GP107
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2013
February 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1442 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1366 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
3,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
768
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
69.22
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
96 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
7008 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
84.1 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
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