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- Radeon HD 7970M vs GeForce GTX 960M
Radeon HD 7970M vs GeForce GTX 960M
| Radeon HD 7970MMemory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILERelease date: 24 Apr 2012 |
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| GeForce GTX 960MMemory: 2048Mb GDDR5MOBILERelease date: 13 Mar 2015 |
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Summary
Synthetic performance index
- Radeon HD 7970M126%
- GeForce GTX 960M100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7970M |
| Around 26% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 960M |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7970M
The Radeon HD 7970M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).Specifications
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 7970M | GeForce GTX 960M |
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| GPU Name | Wimbledon (Wimbledon XT) | vs | GM107 (N16P-GX-A1) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 212 mm² | vs | 148 mm² |
| Transistors | 2,800 million | vs | 1,870 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | vs | 640 |
| Compute Units | 20 | vs | 5 |
| Core clock | 850 MHz | vs | 1097 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 40 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 7970M | GeForce GTX 960M |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1200 MHz 4800 MHz effective | vs | 1253 MHz 5012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 7970M | GeForce GTX 960M |
|---|
| TDP | 100 watts | vs | 75 watts |
| Release Date | 24 Apr 2012 | vs | 13 Mar 2015 |
Raw Performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- Radeon HD 7970M27.20 GP/s
- GeForce GTX 960M17.55 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- Radeon HD 7970M68.00 GT/s
- GeForce GTX 960M43.90 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- Radeon HD 7970M153.60 GB/s
- GeForce GTX 960M80.20 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- Radeon HD 7970M2176.00 GFLOPs
- GeForce GTX 960M1404.20 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Synthetic benchmarks
3DMark 11
- Radeon HD 7970M6730
- GeForce GTX 960M5320
Points (higher is better)
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