AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD FirePro M6000

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

AMD FirePro M6000

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 2GB VRAM FirePro M6000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro M6000 's Advantages

Lower TDP (43W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +125%

2.304 TFLOPS

FirePro M6000

1.024 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

FirePro M6000

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jul 2012

Solar System

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

10

-

1280

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

43W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Heathrow

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Heathrow XT GL (216-0835033)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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