AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon R9 370X
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Aug 2015
Generation
Solar System
Pirate Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
980 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1030 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
2GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
179.2GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
20
24
Shading Units
1280
1280
TMUs
80
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
512 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
32.96 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
82.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
2.637 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
164.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
Trinidad
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Trinidad XT
Architecture
GCN 1.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.8 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
212 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
180W
Outputs
No outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a1x DisplayPort 1.2
Suggested PSU
—
450 W
Power Connectors
—
2x 6-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
5.1
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.