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    Radeon HD 8970M vs Radeon R9 M470

    Radeon HD 8970M
    Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 14 May 2013
    Radeon HD 8970M
    Radeon R9 M470
    Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5MOBILE
    Release date: 15 May 2016
    Radeon R9 M470

    Summary

    Reasons to consider Radeon HD 8970M

    Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
    Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
    Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Supports Mantle
    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

    Reasons to consider Radeon R9 M470

    This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
    Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
    Supports FreeSync
    Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
    Supports TrueAudio
    Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
    Radeon HD 8970M

    HWBench recommends Radeon HD 8970M

    Based on theoretical specifications.

    Specifications

    Core Configuration

    Radeon HD 8970MRadeon R9 M470
    GPU NameNeptune (Neptune XT)vsStrato (Strato PRO)
    Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
    Die Size212 mm²vs160 mm²
    Transistors2,800 millionvs2,080 million
    Shaders1280vs768
    Compute Units20vs12
    Core clock850 MHzvs900 MHz
    ROPs32vs16
    TMUs80vs48

    Memory Configuration

    Radeon HD 8970MRadeon R9 M470
    Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
    Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
    Memory Speed1200 MHz
    4800 MHz effective    		vs1500 MHz
    6000 MHz effective
    Memory Size4096 Mbvs4096 Mb

    Additional details

    Radeon HD 8970MRadeon R9 M470
    TDP100 wattsvs0 watts
    Release Date14 May 2013vs15 May 2016

    Raw Performance comparison

    Pixel Rate

    • Radeon HD 8970M
      28.80 GP/s
    • Radeon R9 M470
      16.00 GP/s

    GigaPixels - higher is better

    Texel Rate

    • Radeon HD 8970M
      72.00 GT/s
    • Radeon R9 M470
      48.00 GT/s

    GigaTexels - higher is better

    Memory bandwidth

    • Radeon HD 8970M
      153.60 GB/s
    • Radeon R9 M470
      96.00 GB/s

    GB/s - higher is better

    Single precision performance

    • Radeon HD 8970M
      2304.00 GFLOPs
    • Radeon R9 M470
      1536.00 GFLOPs

    GFLOPs - higher is better

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