NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon R9 M485X

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
AMD Radeon R9 M485X
1280 Shaders
3GB GDDR5
993MHz
2048 Shaders
8GB GDDR5
723MHz
FP32
2.54 TFLOPS
FP32
2.96 TFLOPS
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Form Factor
Soldered
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Form Factor
Soldered
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TDP
75W
TDP
100W
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GB5 OpenCL - N/A
0%
GB5 OpenCL - N/A
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GB5 CUDA - N/A
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GB5 CUDA - N/A
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GB5 Metal - N/A
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GB5 Metal - N/A
0%
GB5 Vulkan - N/A
0%
GB5 Vulkan - N/A
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OCT 2020.1 - N/A
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OCT 2020.1 - N/A
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OCT Metal - N/A
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OCT Metal - N/A
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Manufacturer
NVIDIA
Manufacturer
AMD
Chip Designer
NVIDIA
Chip Designer
AMD
Architecture
Maxwell 2
Architecture
GCN 3
Family
GeForce 900
Family
Radeon R 400
Codename
NV124
GM204
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Codename
Tonga
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Variant
Antigua XT
Market Segment
Laptop
Market Segment
Laptop
Release Date
10/7/2014
Release Date
5/15/2016
Foundry
TSMC
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Foundry
TSMC
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Fabrication Node
28nm
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Fabrication Node
28nm
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Die Size
398 mm²
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Die Size
359 mm²
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Transistor Count
5.2 Billion
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Transistor Count
5 Billion
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Transistor Density
13.07M/mm²
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Transistor Density
13.93M/mm²
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Form
Soldered
Form
Soldered
Shading Units
1280 Shaders
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Shading Units
2048 Shaders
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Texture Mapping Units
80 TMUs
Texture Mapping Units
128 TMUs
Render Output Units
48 ROPs
Render Output Units
32 ROPs
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Streaming Multiprocessors
10 SMs
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Compute Units
32 CUs
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993MHz
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723MHz Base
723MHz
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FP32
2.54 TFLOPS
FP32
2.96 TFLOPS
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FP64
0.08 TFLOPS
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FP64
0.19 TFLOPS
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Pixel Fillrate
47.664 GPixel/s
Pixel Fillrate
23.136 GPixel/s
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Texture Fillrate
79.44 GTexel/s
Texture Fillrate
92.544 GTexel/s
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L1
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48KB/SM
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L1
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16KB/CU
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L2
1.5MB Shared
L2
768KB Shared
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3GB
GDDR5
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8GB
GDDR5
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Bus Width
192Bit
Bus Width
256Bit
Clock
1250MHz
Transfer Rate
5GT/s
Bandwidth
120GB/s
Clock
1250MHz
Transfer Rate
5GT/s
Bandwidth
160GB/s
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TDP
75W
TDP
100W
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No Ports
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No Ports
Max Resolution
4096x2304
Max Resolution
4096x2160
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
60Hz
Max Resolution Refresh Rate
60Hz
Variable Refresh Rate
G-Sync
FreeSync
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Variable Refresh Rate
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FreeSync
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Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Not Supported
Display Stream Compression (DSC)
Not Supported
Multi Monitor Support
3
Multi Monitor Support
3
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Content Protection
HDCP 1.4
Model
2x NVENC 3
Model
VCE 3.0
Codec
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AVC (H.264)
HEVC (H.265)
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Codec
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AVC (H.264)
HEVC (H.265)
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Model
NVDEC 1
Model
UVD 5.0
Codec
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
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VC-1
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AVC (H.264)
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Codec
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
MPEG-4
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VC-1
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AVC (H.264)
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Direct X
12
Direct 3D
12_1
Direct X
12
Direct 3D
12_0
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
3.0
Vulkan
1.3
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
Shader Model
6.7
CUDA
5.2
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PureVideo HD
VP6
VDPAU
Feature Set E
Shader Model
6.5
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GFX
8
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Not a Card
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Not a Card
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PCIe Version
3.0
PCIe Lanes
16
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PCIe Version
3.0
PCIe Lanes
16
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