AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon RX 470D
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Oct 2016
Generation
Solar System
Arctic Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
926 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1206 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1650 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
211.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
28
Shading Units
1280
1792
TMUs
80
112
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
38.59 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
135.1 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
4.322 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
270.1 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
—
4.322 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
Ellesmere
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Polaris 10 PROD
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 4.0
Foundry
TSMC
GlobalFoundries
Process Size
28 nm
14 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
5.7 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
232 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
120W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU
—
300 W
Power Connectors
—
1x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.