AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon R9 M280X

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M

AMD Radeon R9 M280X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M280X 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 11% (1000MHz vs 900MHz)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +28%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X

1.792 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

Radeon R9 M280X

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Feb 2015

Solar System

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

14

-

1280

Shading Units

896

80

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

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2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

112.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Saturn

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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