NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs ATI Radeon E2400

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M and ATI Radeon E2400 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 7 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 54% higher core clock speed: 924 MHz vs 600 MHz
  • 34.6x more texture fill rate: 83.04 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
  • 32x more pipelines: 1280 vs 40
  • 55.4x better floating-point performance: 2,657 gflops vs 48 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • 48x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 128 MB
  • Around 79% higher memory clock speed: 2500 MHz vs 1400 MHz
  • 109.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 5691 vs 52
  • Around 32% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 378 vs 287
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 7 October 2014 vs 28 June 2007
Core clock speed 924 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate 83.04 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1280 vs 40
Floating-point performance 2,657 gflops vs 48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Maximum memory size 6 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz vs 1400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 5691 vs 52
PassMark - G2D Mark 378 vs 287

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon E2400

  • 3.2x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 81 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 81 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon E2400

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
5691
52
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
378
287
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M ATI Radeon E2400
PassMark - G3D Mark 5691 52
PassMark - G2D Mark 378 287
Geekbench - OpenCL 19001
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
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3342
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 8546
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3699
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3342
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 472

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M ATI Radeon E2400

Essentials

Architecture Maxwell 2.0 TeraScale
Code name GM204 RV610
Launch date 7 October 2014 28 June 2007
Launch price (MSRP) $2,560.89
Place in performance rating 568 609
Price now $1,899
Type Laptop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 3.99

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1038 MHz
Core clock speed 924 MHz 600 MHz
CUDA cores 1280
Floating-point performance 2,657 gflops 48 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 1280 40
Texture fill rate 83.04 GTexel / s 2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 81 Watt 25 Watt
Transistor count 5,200 million 180 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support 1
G-SYNC support
HDMI
VGA аnalog display support 1

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI Express 3.0
Interface MXM-B (3.0) MXM-II
Laptop size large
SLI options 1
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 10.0
OpenCL 1.1
OpenGL 4.5 3.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 6 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 120 GB / s 11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 192 Bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 2500 MHz 1400 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR3
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Ansel
BatteryBoost
CUDA
DSR
GameStream
GameWorks
GeForce Experience
GeForce ShadowPlay
GPU Boost
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
Optimus
SLI