AMD Radeon R9 M470 vs AMD Radeon HD 8870M

VS

AMD Radeon R9 M470

AMD Radeon HD 8870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M470 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M470 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 29% (1000MHz vs 775MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M470 +54%

1.536 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M470

VS

Radeon HD 8870M

Graphics Card

May 2016

Release Date

Apr 2013

Gem System

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

725 MHz

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

775 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

10

-

768

Shading Units

640

48

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.40 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

31.00 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

992.0 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

62.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

Unknown

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Emerald

GPU Name

Venus

Emerald PRO

GPU Variant

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.5

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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