AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon HD 6670A

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6670A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6670A 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +300%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6670A

0.576 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

Radeon HD 6670A

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Apr 2011

Solar System

Generation

All-In-One

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

6

1280

Shading Units

480

80

TMUs

24

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

4.800 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

576.0 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Turks

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Turks XT (215-0803000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

45W

-

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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