AMD Radeon HD 8970M
VS
NVIDIA GeForce 930A
AMD Radeon HD 8970M
VS
NVIDIA GeForce 930A

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 8970M and NVIDIA GeForce 930A. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

312
Place in performance rating
625
31.66
Value for money (0-100)
no data
GCN
Architecture
Maxwell
Neptune
Code name
GM108
Laptop
Type
Desktop
15 May 2013 (8 years ago)
Release date
13 March 2015 (6 years ago)
$135
Price now
$350
8.93
Value for money
1.03
Neptune
GPU code name
GM108
Laptop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 8970M and NVIDIA GeForce 930A based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1280
Pipelines
384
850 MHz
Core clock speed
928 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
941 MHz
2,800 million
Transistor count
no data
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
100 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
72.00
Texture fill rate
22.58
2,304 gflops
Floating-point performance
722.7 gflops
1280
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
900 MHz
Boost clock speed
941 MHz
2,800 million
Number of transistors
no data
100 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
33 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 8970M and NVIDIA GeForce 930A.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
no data
Supplementary power connectors
None
large
Laptop size
no data

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon HD 8970M and NVIDIA GeForce 930A can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
DDR3
4 GB
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
64 Bit
4800 MHz
Memory clock speed
2002 MHz
153.6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
16.02 GB/s
-
Shared memory
no data

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 8970M and NVIDIA GeForce 930A, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 8970M and NVIDIA GeForce 930A. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 8970M and NVIDIA GeForce 930A graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon HD 8970M or NVIDIA GeForce 930A good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8970M
NVIDIA GeForce 930A
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8970M
NVIDIA GeForce 930A
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8970M
NVIDIA GeForce 930A
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8970M
NVIDIA GeForce 930A
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8970M
NVIDIA GeForce 930A
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 8970M

12.27% faster in synthetic tests

Cheaper ($135 vs $350)

More pipelines (1280 vs 384)

More maximum RAM amount (4 GB vs 2 GB)

More memory bandwidth (153.6 GB/s vs 16.02 GB/s)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 930A

Less power consumption (33 Watt vs 100 Watt)

So, AMD Radeon HD 8970M or NVIDIA GeForce 930A?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 8970M .

AMD Radeon HD 8970M versus NVIDIA GeForce 930A performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

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