AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 550v 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

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 19.20GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 550v 's Advantages

Lower TDP (10W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +700%

2.304 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 550v

0.288 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 550v

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

May 2010

Solar System

Generation

M9x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

19.20GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

4

-

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.600 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.40 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

288.0 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

10W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

M96

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.514 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

146 mm²

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

-

5.1

Shader Model

4.1

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