AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

GPU · Specs Compare

Products
GPU AMD Radeon R9 360 OEM AMD · 2015-05
GPU AMD Radeon HD 8970M AMD · 2013-05
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2015
May 2013
Generation
Pirate Islands
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1625 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
12
20
Shading Units
768
1280
TMUs
48
80
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
256 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
16.80 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
1.613 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
100.8 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tobago
Neptune
GPU Variant
Tobago PRO(215-0875010)
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Architecture
GCN 2.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.08 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
160 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
85W
100W
Suggested PSU
250 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.3
5.1
▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.