AMD Radeon R9 M470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2016
Sep 2014
Generation
Gem System
GeForce 900
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
900 MHz
1127 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1216 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
88.00GB/s
224.4GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
-
Shading Units
768
2048
TMUs
48
128
ROPs
16
64
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB (per SMM)
L2 Cache
256 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
16.00 GPixel/s
77.82 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
48.00 GTexel/s
155.6 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
4.981 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
96.00 GFLOPS
155.6 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Emerald
GM204
GPU Variant
Emerald PRO
GM204-400-A1
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Maxwell 2.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
5.2 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
398 mm²
Board Design
TDP
Unknown
165W
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.03x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU
-
450 W
Power Connectors
-
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
3.0
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.3
Shader Model
6.5
6.4
CUDA
-
5.2