AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 235 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

1888 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 235 OEM 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (35W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +1427%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 235 OEM

0.248 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

Radeon R5 235 OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Dec 2013

Sea Islands

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

64bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

2

-

2048

Shading Units

160

128

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.100 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.200 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

248.0 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

35W

600 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Caicos

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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