AMD Radeon HD 7990 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Malta GM204
GPU variant Malta XT (215-0849026) N16E-GT-A2
Architecture GCN 1.0 Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 4,313 million 5,200 million
Die size 365 mm² 398 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Apr 24th, 2013
Generation Southern Islands
Production End-of-life
Launch price 999 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 37 in our database
Predecessor Northern Islands
Successor Sea Islands

Clocks

Base clock 950 MHz 924 MHz
Boost clock 1000 MHz 1038 MHz
Memory clock 1500 MHz 6 Gbps effective 1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 3 GB 6 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 384 bit 192 bit
Bandwidth 288.0 GB/s 120.3 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 2048 1280
TMUs 128 80
ROPs 32 48
Compute units 32
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SMM)
Cache L2 768 KB 1536 KB
SMM count 10

Performance

Pixel rate 32.00 GPixel/s 49.82 GPixel/s
Texture rate 128.0 GTexel/s 83.04 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 4.096 TFLOPS 2.657 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 1,024 GFLOPS (1:4) 83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot MXM Module
Length 304 mm 12 inches
Width 106 mm 4.2 inches
Height 38 mm 1.5 inches
TDP 375 W unknown
Suggested PSU 750 W
Outputs 1x DVI4x mini-DisplayPort No outputs
Power connectors 2x 8-pin None
Board number C476-37 P2754 SKU 2 / 5

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
Shader model 5.1 6.4
CUDA 5.2

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Oct 7th, 2014
Generation GeForce 900M
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-B (3.0)
Reviews 1 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 800M
Successor GeForce 10 Mobile

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