Radeon HD 8970M and Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000) - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name
Neptune
Vega Raven Ridge
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
October 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
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Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1200 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
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Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
512
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
No outputs
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DirectX
12 (11_1)
12_1
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.6
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Shader Model
5.1
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Vulkan
1.2.131
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