Radeon HD 8970M and Radeon HD 6520G - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs Radeon HD 6520G
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
Radeon HD 6520G
308
Radeon HD 8970M
Radeon HD 6520G
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Neptune
Llano
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
June 2011
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
IGP
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
32 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
1000 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
320
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
35 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
6.400
Memory type
GDDR5
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
System Shared
Memory bus width
256 Bit
System Shared
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)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A