Radeon HD 8970M and T550 Mobile - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M
T550 Mobile
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Turing (2018−2021)
GPU code name
Neptune
TU117
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
May 2022
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1665 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1065 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
12 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
4,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
25 Watt (20 - 60 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate
72.00
106.6
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5, GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
12000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
7.5
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.6
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3