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

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AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL AMD Radeon HD 8970M

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

Released 4 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1011MHz vs 900MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (65W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega M GL +12%

2.588 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega M GL

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

931 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1011 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

1024bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

20

1280

Shading Units

1280

80

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.35 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

80.88 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

2.588 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.588 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

161.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 22

GPU Name

Neptune

VegaM XL (D715A714)

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

Board Design

65W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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