AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

GPU Specs Compare

Graphics Card

Release Date
Jun 2012
Oct 2014
Generation
Southern Islands
GeForce 900M
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

Base Clock
850 MHz
924 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
1038 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1253 MHz

Memory

Memory Size
3GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
384bit
192bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
120.3GB/s

Render Config

Compute Units
28
-
Shading Units
1792
1280
TMUs
112
80
ROPs
32
48
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
768 KB
1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
49.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
103.6 GTexel/s
83.04 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.315 TFLOPS
2.657 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
828.8 GFLOPS
83.04 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GPU Name
Tahiti
GM204
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO2(215-0821282)
N16E-GT-A2
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
398 mm²

Board Design

TDP
200W
Unknown
Suggested PSU
550 W
-
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Portable Device Dependent
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
None

Graphics Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.7 (6.4)
CUDA
-
5.2