AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2012
Jun 2017
Generation
London
GeForce 10 Mobile
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
2002 MHz
Base Clock
-
1215 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1379 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
8GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
256.3GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
-
Shading Units
1280
2048
TMUs
80
128
ROPs
32
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
SM Count
-
16
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
88.26 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
176.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.176 TFLOPS
5.648 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
136.0 GFLOPS
176.5 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
88.26 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Wimbledon
GP104
GPU Variant
Wimbledon XT(216-0836036)
N17E-G2-A1
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Pascal
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
16 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
7.2 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
314 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
115W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
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
6.4
CUDA
-
6.1