Radeon HD 8970M and GeForce GTX 960M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs GeForce GTX 960M
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
GeForce GTX 960M
3496
Radeon HD 8970M
GeForce GTX 960M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Neptune
N16P-GX
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
March 2015
Bus support
-
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1202 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1096 MHz
CUDA cores
-
640
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
1,505 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
640
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
47.04
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
80 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
VGA аnalog display support
-
+
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.5
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
Ansel
-
+
BatteryBoost
-
+
GameStream
-
+
GameWorks
-
+
GeForce ShadowPlay
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
Optimus
-
+