AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 540v to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock900MHz

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

1200 additional rendering cores

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 540v 's Advantages

Lower TDP (15W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +2518%

2.304 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 540v

0.088 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

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Mobility Radeon HD 540v

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

May 2010

Solar System

Generation

M9x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

1

1280

Shading Units

80

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

88.00 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

M92

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

15W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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