Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB Mobile
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Neptune
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Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
April 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1442 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1366 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
768
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
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Texture fill rate
72.00
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Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
96 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
1752 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
84 GB/s
Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
No outputs
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G-SYNC support
-
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DirectX
12 (11_1)
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OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.6
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Shader Model
5.1
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Vulkan
1.2.131
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Multi Monitor
-
+
Multi-Projection
-
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