AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

Compare AMD Radeon Vega 8 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

593 points

1446 points

143% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

13 FPS

30 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

22 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

12 FPS

19 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

5 FPS

18 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1426 points

2280 points

59% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

88.64 points

206.38 points

132% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

8763 points

20012 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

8956 points

21753 points

142% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9296 points

19440 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

11397 points

19602 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

924 MHz

207% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2000 MHz

92% significantly higher boost clock speed

1038 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

45 W

66% significantly lower TDP

75 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

16 Gigapixels/s

49.82 Gigapixels/s

211% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigatexels/s

83.04 Gigatexels/s

29% slightly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

2.05 TFLOPS

2.66 TFLOPS

29% slightly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

512

1280

150% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

150% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

499% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

309th of 586

238th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2014 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce GTX 970M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 970M graphics card is better than the Radeon Vega 8 in our tests.

The GeForce GTX 970M has a significantly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the Radeon Vega 8 has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 970M at 75 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 970M is better than the Radeon Vega 8.