AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon R5 M230

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (900MHz vs 855MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R5 M230 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +490%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230

0.39 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

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Radeon R5 M230

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2014

Solar System

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

825 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

855 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

5

1280

Shading Units

320

80

TMUs

20

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.880 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.20 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

390.4 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

24.40 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Jet

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Jet S3 ULT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.69 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

56 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

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CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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