NVIDIA P104-100 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA P104-100 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D 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 P104-100

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
  • Around 89% higher core clock speed: 1607 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • 2x more boost clock speed: 1733 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • 3.9x more texture fill rate: 277.3 GTexel / s vs 72 GTexel / s
  • 2x more pipelines: 2560 vs 1280
  • 3.9x better floating-point performance: 8,873 gflops vs 2,304 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 16 nm vs 28 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 4 GB
  • 2.1x more memory clock speed: 10008 MHz vs 4800 MHz
  • 2.5x better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 51497 vs 20588
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 December 2017 vs 14 May 2013
Core clock speed 1607 MHz vs 850 MHz
Boost clock speed 1733 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate 277.3 GTexel / s vs 72 GTexel / s
Pipelines 2560 vs 1280
Floating-point performance 8,873 gflops vs 2,304 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm vs 28 nm
Maximum memory size 8 GB vs 4 GB
Memory clock speed 10008 MHz vs 4800 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 51497 vs 20588

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8970M

  • 6.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 807 vs 124
  • Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3876 vs 3743
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 807 vs 124
PassMark - G3D Mark 3876 vs 3743

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA P104-100
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
51497
20588
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
124
807
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
3743
3876
Name NVIDIA P104-100 AMD Radeon HD 8970M
Geekbench - OpenCL 51497 20588
PassMark - G2D Mark 124 807
PassMark - G3D Mark 3743 3876
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 P104-100 AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Essentials

Architecture Pascal GCN 1.0
Code name GP104 Neptune
Launch date 12 December 2017 14 May 2013
Place in performance rating 556 555
Type Desktop Desktop
Design AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1733 MHz 850 MHz
Core clock speed 1607 MHz 850 MHz
Floating-point performance 8,873 gflops 2,304 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 16 nm 28 nm
Pipelines 2560 1280
Texture fill rate 277.3 GTexel / s 72 GTexel / s
Transistor count 7,200 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
Length 267 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x 8-pin
Laptop size large

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_1) 11
OpenGL 4.6 4.5

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 4 GB
Memory bandwidth 320.3 GB / s 153.6 GB/s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 10008 MHz 4800 MHz
Memory type GDDR5X GDDR5
Shared memory 0

Technologies

AMD Eyefinity
PowerTune
ZeroCore