GPU Comparison
RADEON
AMD Radeon HD 8970M
CORE STATE
Neptune
VRAM
4 GB
CLOCK SPEED
900 MHz
TDP
100 W
BUS WIDTH
256 bit
ARCHITECTURE
GCN 1.0
PROCESS
28 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2013
VS
GEFORCE
CMP 90HX
CORE STATE
GA102
VRAM
10 GB
CLOCK SPEED
1710 MHz
TDP
320 W
BUS WIDTH
320 bit
ARCHITECTURE
Ampere
PROCESS
8 nm
LAUNCH DATE
2021
PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS
geekbench_opencl
DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIFICATION
HD 8970M
CMP 90HX
Core Specs
Shading Units
1,280
6,400
+400.0%
Shaders
1,280
6,400
+400.0%
TMUs
80
200
+150.0%
ROPs
32
80
+150.0%
Compute Units
20
—
SM Count
—
50
Clocks
Base Clock
850 MHz
1500 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1710 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
4.8 Gbps effective
1188 MHz
19 Gbps effective
Memory
Memory Size
4 GB
10 GB
VRAM (MB)
4,096
10,240
+150.0%
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6X
Memory Bus
256 bit
320 bit
Bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
760.3 GB/s
Cache
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
128 KB (per SM)
L2 Cache
512 KB
5 MB
Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
136.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
342.0 GTexel/s
FP32 (TFLOPS)
2.304 TFLOPS
21.89 TFLOPS
FP64 (TFLOPS)
144.0 GFLOPS (1:16)
342.0 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP16 (TFLOPS)
—
21.89 TFLOPS (1:1)
AI/RT
RT Cores
—
50
Tensor Cores
—
200
Power
TDP
100 W
320 W
TDP (W)
100
320
+220.0%
Suggested PSU
—
700 W
Power Connectors
—
2x 8-pin
Architecture
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Ampere
GPU Name
Neptune
GA102
Generation
Solar System
(HD 8900M)
Mining GPUs
Process Size
28 nm
8 nm
Transistors
2,800 million
28,300 million
Die Size
212 mm²
628 mm²
Foundry
TSMC
Samsung
Density
13.2M / mm²
45.1M / mm²
API Support
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Vulkan
1.2.170
1.4
OpenCL
2.1 (1.2)
3.0
CUDA
—
8.6
Shader Model
6.5 (5.1)
6.8
Physical
Slot Width
MXM Module
Dual-slot
Length
—
285 mm
11.2 inches
Height
—
112 mm
4.4 inches
Outputs
Portable Device Dependent
No outputs
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x4
Other
Production
End-of-life
End-of-life
Predecessor
London
—
Successor
Gem System
—