AMD Radeon Pro 450 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 450

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon Pro 450 and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 450 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 81.28GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 450

1.024 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M +125%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 450

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Oct 2016

Release Date

May 2013

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1270 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

81.28GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

20

-

640

Shading Units

1280

40

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

32.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

1024 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1024 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

64.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Neptune

Baffin LE

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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