AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5570 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

880 additional rendering cores

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5570 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +423%

2.304 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5570

0.44 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

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Mobility Radeon HD 5570

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Nov 2012

Solar System

Generation

Manhattan

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

5

1280

Shading Units

400

80

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.00 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.0 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Pinewood

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Pinewood MXM (215-0757056)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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