Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce GTX 670MX SLI - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce GTX 670MX SLI
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code name
Neptune
N13E-GR
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
October 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
-
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
5080 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1920
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
-
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
-
Memory bus width
256 Bit
2x 192 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
2800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
-
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
-
OpenGL
4.6
-
Shader Model
5.1
-
Vulkan
1.2.131
-
Optimus
-
+