Radeon E9172 MXM vs Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon E9172 MXM and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon E9172 MXM Advantages
Released 8 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1219MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2 Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (89.60GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)
288 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon E9172 MXM
+41%
1248
Mobility Radeon HD 4870 X2
880
Graphics Card
Oct 2017
Release Date
Jan 2009
Embedded
Generation
M9x
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-A (3.0)
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1124 MHz
Base Clock
-
1219 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
48.00GB/s
Bandwidth
89.60GB/s
Render Config
8
Compute Units
10
512
Shading Units
800
32
TMUs
40
16
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
256 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
19.50 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
8.800 GPixel/s
39.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
22.00 GTexel/s
1248 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1248 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
880.0 GFLOPS
78.02 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
176.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
35W
TDP
Unknown
No outputs
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Lexa
GPU Name
M98
E9170
GPU Variant
M98 XT L2
(216-0732023)
(216-0732023)
GCN 4.0
Architecture
TeraScale
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
55 nm
2.2 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
103 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
6.4
Shader Model
4.1
