AMD Radeon R7 M265 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

VS

AMD Radeon R7 M265

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 M265 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 R7 M265 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 9% (900MHz vs 825MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 M265

0.633 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M +263%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 M265

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2014

Release Date

May 2013

Gem System

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

825 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

20

-

384

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

80

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

19.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

-

633.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Opal

GPU Name

Neptune

Opal XT

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

77 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.1

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