NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon HD 8530M
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and AMD Radeon HD 8530M 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.
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
- Videocard is newer: launch date 8 month(s) later
- Around 42% higher core clock speed: 924 MHz vs 650 MHz
- Around 48% higher boost clock speed: 1038 MHz vs 700 MHz
- 4.9x more texture fill rate: 83.04 GTexel / s vs 16.8 GTexel / s
- 3.3x more pipelines: 1280 vs 384
- 4.9x better floating-point performance: 2,657 gflops vs 537.6 gflops
- 6x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 1 GB
- Around 39% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1800 MHz
- 11.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5699 vs 490
- Around 51% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3699 vs 2455
- 93.4x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3699 vs 39.6
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Launch date | 7 October 2014 vs 10 January 2014 |
| Core clock speed | 924 MHz vs 650 MHz |
| Boost clock speed | 1038 MHz vs 700 MHz |
| Texture fill rate | 83.04 GTexel / s vs 16.8 GTexel / s |
| Pipelines | 1280 vs 384 |
| Floating-point performance | 2,657 gflops vs 537.6 gflops |
| Maximum memory size | 6 GB vs 1 GB |
| Memory clock speed | 2500 MHz vs 1800 MHz |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 5699 vs 490 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3699 vs 2455 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3699 vs 39.6 |
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8530M
- Around 15% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 438 vs 380
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 438 vs 380 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8530M
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| Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M | AMD Radeon HD 8530M |
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| PassMark - G3D Mark | 5699 | 490 |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 380 | 438 |
| Geekbench - OpenCL | 19029 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 59.428 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 1113.788 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 4.157 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 39.101 | |
| CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 81.909 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) | 8546 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3699 | 2455 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3342 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) | 8546 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3699 | 39.6 |
| GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3342 | |
| 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score | 303 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M | AMD Radeon HD 8530M | |
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Essentials |
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| Architecture | Maxwell 2.0 | GCN 1.0 |
| Code name | GM204 | Mars |
| Launch date | 7 October 2014 | 10 January 2014 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $2,560.89 | |
| Place in performance rating | 584 | 585 |
| Price now | $1,899 | |
| Type | Laptop | Desktop |
| Value for money (0-100) | 3.99 | |
Technical info |
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| Boost clock speed | 1038 MHz | 700 MHz |
| Core clock speed | 924 MHz | 650 MHz |
| CUDA cores | 1280 | |
| Floating-point performance | 2,657 gflops | 537.6 gflops |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Pipelines | 1280 | 384 |
| Texture fill rate | 83.04 GTexel / s | 16.8 GTexel / s |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 81 Watt | |
| Transistor count | 5,200 million | 1,040 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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| Display Connectors | No outputs | No outputs |
| DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support | 1 | |
| G-SYNC support | ||
| HDMI | ||
| VGA аnalog display support | 1 | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| Bus support | PCI Express 3.0 | |
| Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | PCIe 3.0 x8 |
| Laptop size | large | |
| SLI options | 1 | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None | |
API support |
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| DirectX | 12.0 (12_1) | 12.0 (11_1) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| OpenGL | 4.5 | 4.5 |
Memory |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 6 GB | 1 GB |
| Memory bandwidth | 120 GB / s | 14.4 GB / s |
| Memory bus width | 192 Bit | 64 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 2500 MHz | 1800 MHz |
| Memory type | GDDR5 | DDR3 |
| Shared memory | 0 | |
Technologies |
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| BatteryBoost | ||
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| DSR | ||
| GameStream | ||
| GameWorks | ||
| GeForce Experience | ||
| GeForce ShadowPlay | ||
| GPU Boost | ||
| H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder | ||
| Optimus | ||
| SLI | ||
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