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Your Graphics Research
| Recommended System Requirements | ||
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| Game | Radeon R9 M395X 4GB | GeForce GTX 970M 3GB |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 85% | 59% |
| Hitman 3 | 141% | 107% |
| Assassins Creed: Valhalla | 69% | 46% |
| Resident Evil 8 | 85% | 59% |
| FIFA 21 | 7% | 20% |
| Grand Theft Auto VI | 161% | 124% |
| Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War | 64% | 41% |
| Genshin Impact | 85% | 59% |
| The Medium | 131% | 99% |
| Far Cry 6 | 168% | 130% |
In terms of overall gaming performance, the graphical capabilities of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 970M 3GB are very slightly better than the AMD Radeon R9 M395X 4GB.
The GTX 970M has a 201 MHz higher core clock speed than the R9 M395X, but the R9 M395X has 48 more Texture Mapping Units than the GTX 970M. As a result, the R9 M395X exhibits a 18.6 GTexel/s better Texture Fill Rate than the GTX 970M. This still holds weight but shader performance is generally more relevant, particularly since both of these GPUs support at least DirectX 10.
The GTX 970M has a 201 MHz higher core clock speed and 16 more Render Output Units than the R9 M395X. This results in the GTX 970M providing 21.3 GPixel/s better pixeling performance. However, both GPUs support DirectX 9 or above, and pixeling performance is only really relevant when comparing older cards.
The R9 M395X was released less than a year after the GTX 970M, and so they are likely to have similar driver support for optimizing performance when running the latest games.
Both GPUs exhibit very powerful performance, so it probably isn't worth upgrading from one to the other, as both are capable of running even the most demanding games at the highest settings.
The R9 M395X has 1024 MB more video memory than the GTX 970M, so is likely to be much better at displaying game textures at higher resolutions. This is supported by the fact that the R9 M395X also has superior memory performance overall.
The R9 M395X has 39.7 GB/sec greater memory bandwidth than the GTX 970M, which means that the memory performance of the R9 M395X is noticeably better than the GTX 970M.
The Radeon R9 M395X 4GB has 2048 Shader Processing Units and the GeForce GTX 970M 3GB has 1280. However, the actual shader performance of the R9 M395X is 1259 and the actual shader performance of the GTX 970M is 1794. The GTX 970M having 535 better shader performance is not particularly notable, as altogether the R9 M395X performs better when taking into account other relevant data.
The Radeon R9 M395X 4GB requires 125 Watts to run and the GeForce GTX 970M 3GB requires 81 Watts. The R9 M395X requires 44 Watts more than the GTX 970M to run. The difference is significant enough that the R9 M395X may have a slight adverse affect on your yearly electricity bills in comparison to the GTX 970M.
| Core Speed | 723 MHz | vs |  | 924 MHz | |
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| Boost Clock | - | vs | | 1038 MHz | |
| Architecture | GCN 1.2 Amethyst XT | Maxwell GM204 | |||
| OC Potential | Fair |
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| Driver Support | Great | vs | Great | ||
| Release Date | 09 Jun 2015 | | vs | 07 Oct 2014 | |
| GPU Link | GD Link | GD Link | |||
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| 1366x768 | 10
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10
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| 1600x900 | 9.8
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10
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| 1920x1080 | 7.8
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8.4
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| 2560x1440 | 5.7
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6.1
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| 3840x2160 | 4.2
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4.5
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| Memory | 4096 MB | | vs | 3072 MB | |
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| Memory Speed | 1250 MHz | vs | | 1253 MHz | |
| Memory Bus | 256 Bit | | vs | 192 Bit | |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | | vs | | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bandwidth | 160GB/sec | | vs | 120.3GB/sec | |
| L2 Cache | 768 KB | vs | |
2048 KB | |
| Delta Color Compression | yes | vs | yes | ||
| Memory Performance | 0% | |
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0% |
| Comparison | |||||
| Shader Processing Units | 2048 | | vs | 1280 | |
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| Actual Shader Performance | 61% | vs | | 86% | |
| Technology | 28nm | | vs | | 28nm |
| Texture Mapping Units | 128 | | vs | 80 | |
| Texture Rate | 92.5 GTexel/s | | vs | 73.9 GTexel/s | |
| Render Output Units | 32 | vs | | 48 | |
| Pixel Rate | 23.1 GPixel/s | vs | | 44.4 GPixel/s | |
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| Max Digital Resolution (WxH) | 4096x2160 | | vs | | 4096x2160 |
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| VGA Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| DVI Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| HDMI Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| DisplayPort Connections | 0 | vs | 0 | ||
| Comparison | |||||
| Max Power | 125 Watts | vs | | 81 Watts | |
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| Recommended PSU | - | - | |||
| DirectX | 12.0 | vs | | 12.1 | |
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| Shader Model | 5.0 | | vs | | 5.0 |
| Open GL | 4.5 | | vs | | 4.5 |
| Open CL | - | vs | - | ||
| Notebook GPU | yes | yes | |||
| SLI/Crossfire | yes | | vs | | yes |
| Dedicated | yes | | vs | | yes |
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| Recommended Processor | Intel Core i7-4810MQ 4-Core 2.8GHz | | vs | Intel Core i7-4930MX 4-Core 3.0GHz | |
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| Recommended RAM | 8 GB | | vs | | 8 GB |
| Maximum Recommended Gaming Resolution | 1920x1080 | | vs | | 1920x1080 |
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| Mini Review | Overview Radeon R9 M395X 4GB is a High-End Mobile Graphics Card based on the second revision of the Graphics Core Next Architecture (CGN). Architecture Radeon R9 M395X 4GB Features a GPU Codenamed Amethyst XT which is a Third Gen GCN GPU and is identical to the Tonga XT GPU used on the Desktop Radeon R9 380X. Amethyst XT has 32 Compute Units Unlocked and thus offers 2048 Shader Processing Units, 128 TMUs and 32 ROPs. GPU The Central Unit is Clocked at 723MHz. Memory: Speed The GPU is equipped with fast GDDR5 and Accesses the Frame Buffer through a 256-bit Memory Interface. The Memory Clock Operates at 1250MHz. Memory: Frame Buffer The GPU can fill up a Memory Pool of up to 4GB. Under most circumstances, this only proves useful in certain 3D Games whose Settings Require Large Amounts of Memory. However, because the GPU itself is too weak to work under other circumstances in which 4GB of Memory are needed - such as 4K Gaming, a Large Frame Buffer is mostly a Gimmick. Power Consumption With a rated board TDP of 125W, it is suited for very large laptops. Performance Radeon R9 M395X 4GB is a Direct Rebrand of Radeon R9 M295X 4GB. Performance is Comparable to the desktop Radeon R9 280. Therefore, even GeForce GTX 970M is still faster. System Suggestions Radeon R9 M395X 4GB is best suited for resolutions up to and including 1920x1080. We recommend a Strong Processor and 8GB of RAM for Optimal Performance. | Overview GeForce GTX 970M 3GB is a high-end Mobile Graphics Card based on the second revision of the Maxwell architecture. Architecture The Second variant of the Maxwell Architecture, despite being also manufactured with a 28nm technology, has an extremely large L2 Cache and features a Third Generation Delta Color Compression which allows NVIDIA to produce Graphics Cards with relatively small memory data transfer rates, without causing too much impact on the overall performance. Furthermore, the Shaders have been redesigned and are both more powerful and energy efficient. The Second Revision of Maxwell also adds the VXGI (Voxel Global Illumination) Technology which makes scenes significantly more lifelike and believable as light interacts more realistically in the game environment and the MFAA Technology which provides the same effect as MSAA but at a much lower performance cost. GPU It equips a GPU codenamed GM204 which has 10 SM activated and thus offers 1280 Shader Processing Units, 80 TMUs and 48 ROPs. The central unit runs at 924MHz and goes up to 993MHz, in Turbo Mode. Memory The GPU accesses a 3GB frame buffer of fast GDDR5, through a 192-bit memory interface. The memory clock operates at 1253MHz. The frame buffer size is adequate and any extra memory wouldn't add any extra performance. Features DirectX 12.0 Support (11.0 Hardware Default) and support for SLI, GameStream, G-SYNC, GPU Boost 2.0, GeForce Experience, PhysX and other technologies. Temperature The Card is known to run cool. However, ultimately, it all depends on the notebook's cooling system. Power Consumption With a rated board TDP of 81W, it will only be equipped in large notebooks. Performance Benchmarks indicate its performance is over 10% faster than GeForce GTX 880M. Therefore, it should even surpass GeForce GTX 760 and be around as fast as desktop GeForce GTX 670. GeForce GTX 970M is therefore the second fastest mobile Graphics Card as of October 2014 and AMD's Radeon R9 M290X is beaten in over 20%. System Suggestions We recommend a very strong processor (Intel Core i7 Mobile Quad Core) and 8GB of RAM for a notebook with GeForce GTX 970M 6GB. | |||
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| Possible GPU Upgrades | N/A | N/A | |||
| GPU Variants | - | - | |||