AMD Radeon R5 220 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 220 OEM and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R5 220 OEM 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
Lower TDP (19W vs 250W)
AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 8.528GB/s)
1968 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R5 220 OEM
0.104 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 8970 OEM
+3543%
3.789 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2013
Release Date
Jan 2013
Volcanic Islands
Generation
Sea Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
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533 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
384bit
8.528GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
Render Config
2
Compute Units
32
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-
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80
Shading Units
2048
8
TMUs
128
4
ROPs
32
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8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
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-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
5.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
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104.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
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FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
19W
TDP
250W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Cedar
GPU Name
Tahiti
Cedar PRO
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT
(215-0821060)
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.292 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
59 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.4
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
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5.0
Shader Model
5.1
