Radeon HD 8970M and HD Graphics 3000 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs HD Graphics 3000
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
HD Graphics 3000
262
Radeon HD 8970M
HD Graphics 3000
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Gen. 6 Sandy Bridge (2011)
GPU code name
Neptune
Sandy Bridge
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
February 2011
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1350 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
350 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
20.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
32 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
995 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
12
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
unknown
Texture fill rate
72.00
13.80
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.1 (10_1)
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
OpenGL
4.6
3.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A