AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon R5 M240

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 M240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 M240 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1030MHz vs 900MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +249%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M240

0.659 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

Radeon R5 M240

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Sep 2014

Solar System

Generation

Crystal System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1030 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

5

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.240 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

659.2 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

41.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Jet

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Jet XT

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

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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