AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon RX 7800M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

AMD Radeon RX 7800M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 7800M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 180W)

AMD Radeon RX 7800M 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 138% (2145MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (12GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2560 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 7800M +1456%

35.87 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

Radeon RX 7800M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Sep 2024

Solar System

Generation

Navi Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1825 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

2145 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

432GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

60

-

1280

Shading Units

3840

80

TMUs

240

32

ROPs

96

-

RT Cores

60

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

256 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

L3 Cache

48 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

401.3 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

560.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

71.73 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

35.87 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1121 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

180W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Navi 32

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Navi 32

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

5 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

28.1 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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