Radeon HD 8970M and FirePro S4000X - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M
FirePro S4000X
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
Neptune
Venus
Market segment
Laptop
Mobile workstation
Release date
May 2013
August 2014
Bus support
-
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
775 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
725 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
992.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
1,500 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
640
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
45 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
31.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
72 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Dual-link DVI support
-
1
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131