AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M ATI Mobility Radeon X2500

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 256MB VRAM Mobility Radeon X2500 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

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

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

Mobility Radeon X2500

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jun 2007

Solar System

Generation

M6x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

-

80

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.840 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.840 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

M66

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

90 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.6

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

3.0

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