NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 v2 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 v2 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: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 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 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 v2

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 22% higher core clock speed: 1038 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • Around 40% higher boost clock speed: 1188 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • Around 4% higher memory clock speed: 5012 MHz vs 4800 MHz
  • Around 94% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames): 4890 vs 2521
  • Around 94% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps): 4890 vs 2521
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 17 November 2015 vs 14 May 2013
Core clock speed 1038 MHz vs 850 MHz
Boost clock speed 1188 MHz vs 850 MHz
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz vs 4800 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4890 vs 2521
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4890 vs 2521

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8970M

  • Around 89% higher texture fill rate: 72 GTexel / s vs 38.02 GTexel / s
  • 2.5x more pipelines: 1280 vs 512
  • Around 89% better floating-point performance: 2,304 gflops vs 1,217 gflops
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB
Texture fill rate 72 GTexel / s vs 38.02 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1280 vs 512
Floating-point performance 2,304 gflops vs 1,217 gflops
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 2 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 v2
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8970M

GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
4890
2521
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
4890
2521
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 v2 AMD Radeon HD 8970M
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4890 2521
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4890 2521
PassMark - G3D Mark 3876
PassMark - G2D Mark 807
Geekbench - OpenCL 18661
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 57.232
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 - Manhattan (Frames) 3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 2595
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2595
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 v2 AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 GCN 1.0
Code name GM206 Neptune
Launch date 17 November 2015 14 May 2013
Place in performance rating 433 549
Type Desktop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1188 MHz 850 MHz
Core clock speed 1038 MHz 850 MHz
Floating-point performance 1,217 gflops 2,304 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 512 1280
Texture fill rate 38.02 GTexel / s 72 GTexel / s
Transistor count 2,940 million 2,800 million
Compute units 20
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 11
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 80.19 GB / s 153.6 GB/s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 5012 MHz 4800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
PowerTune
ZeroCore