Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce GTX 670M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce GTX 670M
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
GeForce GTX 670M
1788
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce GTX 670M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Neptune
N13E-GS1-LP
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
March 2012
Bus support
-
PCI Express 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
598 MHz
CUDA cores
-
336
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
803.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
1,950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
336
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
33.5 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
72.0 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
N/A
Optimus
-
+