ATI Radeon E4690 MXM vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

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ATI Radeon E4690 MXM AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon E4690 MXM and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon E4690 MXM 's Advantages

Lower TDP (30W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E4690 MXM

0.384 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M +500%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon E4690 MXM

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Jun 2009

Release Date

May 2013

Embedded

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

22.40GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

20

320

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

4.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

RV730

GPU Name

Neptune

RV730 XT E4690 (215-0729055)

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

TeraScale

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.514 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

146 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.1

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