Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce GTX 1050 Mobile 3 GB
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
Neptune
GP107
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
February 2019
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1442 MHz
Core clock speed
850 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
7 GB/s
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