NVIDIA CMP 50HX vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA CMP 50HX and AMD Radeon HD 8970M 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA CMP 50HX

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • Around 59% higher core clock speed: 1350 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • Around 82% higher boost clock speed: 1545 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • 4119.4x more texture fill rate: 296.6 GTexel/s vs 72 GTexel / s
  • 2.8x more pipelines: 3584 vs 1280
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2.5x more maximum memory size: 10 GB vs 4 GB
  • Around 89% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 38889 vs 20588
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 24 Jun 2021 vs 14 May 2013
Core clock speed 1350 MHz vs 850 MHz
Boost clock speed 1545 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate 296.6 GTexel/s vs 72 GTexel / s
Pipelines 3584 vs 1280
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 10 GB vs 4 GB
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 38889 vs 20588

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8970M

  • 2.5x lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • 2.7x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt vs 250 Watt
Memory clock speed 4800 MHz vs 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA CMP 50HX
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
38889
20588
Name NVIDIA CMP 50HX AMD Radeon HD 8970M
Geekbench - OpenCL 38889 20588
PassMark - G3D Mark 3876
PassMark - G2D Mark 807
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)

NVIDIA CMP 50HX AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Essentials

Architecture Turing GCN 1.0
Code name TU102 Neptune
Launch date 24 Jun 2021 14 May 2013
Place in performance rating 556 555
Design AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1545 MHz 850 MHz
Core clock speed 1350 MHz 850 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 12 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 3584 1280
Pixel fill rate 123.6 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 296.6 GTexel/s 72 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 250 Watt 100 Watt
Transistor count 18600 million 2,800 million
Compute units 20
Floating-point performance 2,304 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Form factor Dual-slot
Height 35 mm, 1.4 inches
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 267 mm, 10.5 inches
Recommended system power (PSU) 600 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 2x 8-pin
Width 116 mm, 4.6 inches
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2) 11
OpenCL 3.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.7
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 10 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 560.0 GB/s 153.6 GB/s
Memory bus width 320 bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz, 14 Gbps effective 4800 MHz
Memory type GDDR6 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
PowerTune
ZeroCore