AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5830 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 and 4 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5830 's Advantages

Lower TDP (24W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +188%

2.304 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5830

0.8 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

Mobility Radeon HD 5830

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2010

Solar System

Generation

Manhattan

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

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

10

-

1280

Shading Units

800

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.000 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.00 GTexel/s

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2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

100W

TDP

24W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Broadway

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Broadway LE

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

166 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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