AMD Radeon RX Vega M GH vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

VS

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GH

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega M GH 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 RX Vega M GH 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1190MHz vs 900MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (204.8GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega M GH +58%

3.656 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega M GH

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Feb 2018

Release Date

May 2013

Vega

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

IGP

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1063 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1190 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

1024bit

Memory Bus

256bit

204.8GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

20

-

1536

Shading Units

1280

96

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

76.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

114.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

3.656 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.656 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

228.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 22

GPU Name

Neptune

VegaM XT (C7398773)

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

208 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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