AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon R5 A230

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M

AMD Radeon R5 A230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R5 A230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (900MHz vs 855MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 A230 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +321%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A230

0.547 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

Radeon R5 A230

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2014

Solar System

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

780 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

855 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

5

-

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

20

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

6.840 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.10 GTexel/s

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

547.2 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

34.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Jet

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Jet PRO (216-0856040)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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