AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon Pro 460

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro 460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 81.28GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro 460 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 1% (907MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (35W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +24%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 460

1.858 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

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Radeon Pro 460

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Oct 2016

Solar System

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

907 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

81.28GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

16

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.51 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.05 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

1.858 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.858 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

116.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Baffin

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Baffin XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

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CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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