AMD Radeon R5 A220 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

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AMD Radeon R5 A220

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 A220 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 R5 A220 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

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

1120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 A220

0.248 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M +829%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 A220

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

May 2013

All-In-One

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

20

-

160

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.100 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

6.200 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

248.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

35W

TDP

100W

-

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Caicos

GPU Name

Neptune

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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