AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GRID M60-8Q

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Neptune GM204
GPU variant Neptune XT (216-0847000)
Architecture GCN 1.0 Maxwell 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 28 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 2,800 million 5,200 million
Die size 212 mm² 398 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date May 14th, 2013
Generation Solar System (HD 8900M)
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Predecessor London
Successor Crystal System

Clocks

Base clock 850 MHz 557 MHz
Boost clock 900 MHz 1178 MHz
Memory clock 1200 MHz 4.8 Gbps effective 1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 4 GB 8 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 153.6 GB/s 160.4 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1280 2048
TMUs 80 128
ROPs 32 64
Compute units 20
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 48 KB (per SMM)
Cache L2 512 KB 2 MB
SMM count 16

Performance

Pixel rate 28.80 GPixel/s 75.39 GPixel/s
Texture rate 72.00 GTexel/s 150.8 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 2.304 TFLOPS 4.825 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 144.0 GFLOPS (1:16) 150.8 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width MXM Module Dual-slot
TDP 100 W 225 W
Outputs No outputs No outputs
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches
Suggested PSU 550 W
Power connectors 1x 8-pin

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

Graphics Card

Release date Aug 30th, 2015
Generation GRID
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16

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