Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce GTX 860M SLI - video card comparison

Radeon HD 8970M

GeForce GTX 860M SLI

Architecture

GCN (2011−2017)

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name

Neptune

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Market segment

Laptop

Laptop

Release date

May 2013

March 2014

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

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SLI options

-

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Boost clock speed

900 MHz

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Core clock speed

850 MHz

1029 MHz

Floating-point performance

2,304 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

2,800 million

2x 1870 Million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

1280

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

100 Watt

120 Watt

Texture fill rate

72.00

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Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

2x 4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

2x 128 Bit

Memory clock speed

4800 MHz

5000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

153.6 GB/s

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Shared memory

-

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Display Connectors

No outputs

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DirectX

12 (11_1)

12 (FL 11_0)

CUDA

-

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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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Optimus

-

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