AMD Radeon HD 6430M vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

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AMD Radeon HD 6430M

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6430M 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 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6430M

0.153 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M +1405%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6430M

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Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

May 2013

Vancouver

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

20

-

160

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

1.920 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

3.840 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

153.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Seymour

GPU Name

Neptune

Seymour LP S3 (216-0809020)

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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