Radeon R9 M470X and Radeon HD 8970M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 M470X vs Radeon HD 8970M
Radeon R9 M470X
3341
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
Radeon R9 M470X
Radeon HD 8970M
Architecture
GCN 2 (2016)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Emerald
Neptune
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2016
May 2013
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Boost clock speed
1100 MHz
900 MHz
Core clock speed
1100 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,971 gflops
2,304 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,080 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
896
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
-
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
61.60
72.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131