AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition 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 12% (900MHz vs 800MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +125%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition

1.024 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

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Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

May 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

775 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

800 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

10

1280

Shading Units

640

80

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Tropo

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Tropo XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

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

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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