AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8970M and NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 44% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 589 MHz
30.6x more texture fill rate: 72 GTexel / s vs 2.356 GTexel / s
160x more pipelines: 1280 vs 8
102.7x better floating-point performance: 2,304 gflops vs 22.432 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 512 MB
6x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 800 MHz
30.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3876 vs 126
2.6x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 807 vs 309

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	14 May 2013 vs 26 November 2009
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 589 MHz
Texture fill rate	72 GTexel / s vs 2.356 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 8
Floating-point performance	2,304 gflops vs 22.432 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 512 MB
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3876 vs 126
PassMark - G2D Mark	807 vs 309

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

3.2x lower typical power consumption: 31 Watt vs 100 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	31 Watt vs 100 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8970M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

3876

126

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

807

309

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8970M	NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM
PassMark - G3D Mark	3876	126
PassMark - G2D Mark	807	309
Geekbench - OpenCL	20899
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	57.241
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1223.742
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	5.78
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	89.306
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	268.643
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2521
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2595
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2521
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2595
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8970M	NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	Tesla 2.0
Code name	Neptune	GT218
Design	AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Launch date	14 May 2013	26 November 2009
Place in performance rating	553	555
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	850 MHz
Compute units	20
Core clock speed	850 MHz	589 MHz
Floating-point performance	2,304 gflops	22.432 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	1280	8
Texture fill rate	72 GTexel / s	2.356 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	31 Watt
Transistor count	2,800 million	260 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Length		168 mm
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	11	10.1
OpenGL	4.5	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB/s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR2
Shared memory	0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
PowerTune
ZeroCore