AMD Radeon 630 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon 630 and AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon 630

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 17% higher core clock speed: 1082 MHz vs 925 MHz
  • 329.2x more texture fill rate: 38.98 GTexel/s vs 118.4 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
  • 5x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 250 Watt
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3720 vs 3583
  • Around 4% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3720 vs 3583
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3361 vs 3339
  • Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3361 vs 3339
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 May 2019 vs 8 January 2013
Core clock speed 1082 MHz vs 925 MHz
Texture fill rate 38.98 GTexel/s vs 118.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt vs 250 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3720 vs 3583
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3720 vs 3583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361 vs 3339
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361 vs 3339

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

  • 4x more pipelines: 2048 vs 512
  • Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2 GB
  • 3.1x more memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 1750 MHz (7000 MHz effective)
Pipelines 2048 vs 512
Maximum memory size 3 GB vs 2 GB
Memory clock speed 5500 MHz vs 1750 MHz (7000 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon 630
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3720
3583
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3720
3583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3361
3339
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3361
3339
Name AMD Radeon 630 AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 3467
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 3467
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3720 3583
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3720 3583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361 3339
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361 3339
Geekbench - OpenCL 9651
PassMark - G2D Mark 217
PassMark - G3D Mark 1435

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon 630 AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 GCN 1.0
Code name Polaris 23 Tahiti
Launch date 13 May 2019 8 January 2013
Place in performance rating 754 756
Type Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1218 MHz
Compute units 8
Core clock speed 1082 MHz 925 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance 77.95 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance 1247 GFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance 1247 GFLOPS
Pipelines 512 2048
Pixel fill rate 19.49 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate 38.98 GTexel/s 118.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 250 Watt
Transistor count 2200 million 4,313 million
Floating-point performance 3,789 gflops

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
HDMI

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x16
Length 5.7 inches (145 mm) 274 mm
Supplementary power connectors None 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Width Dual-slot

API support

DirectX 12.0 12.0
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.6 4.5
Shader Model 6.4
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 3 GB
Memory bandwidth 112.0 GB/s 264.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 bit 384 Bit
Memory clock speed 1750 MHz (7000 MHz effective) 5500 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5