ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

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ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 128MB VRAM Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

May 2013

M5x

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

396 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

128MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.67GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

-

Shading Units

1280

4

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

-

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.592 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

1.592 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

M56

GPU Name

Neptune

-

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

Ultra-Threaded SE

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

90 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.157 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

150 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

2.1

OpenGL

4.6

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

3.0

Shader Model

5.1

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