Radeon HD 8970M and Radeon HD 7650M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs Radeon HD 7650M
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
Radeon HD 7650M
455
Radeon HD 8970M
Radeon HD 7650M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Neptune
Thames-LP/Pro
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
January 2012
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
550 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
450 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
432.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
716 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
480
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
10.80
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
25.6 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