AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8870M 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8870M

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
• Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 3702 vs 3583
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3357 vs 3339
• Around 3% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 3702 vs 3583
• Around 1% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3357 vs 3339

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

• Around 28% higher core clock speed: 925 MHz vs 725 MHz
• 3.8x more texture fill rate: 118.4 GTexel / s vs 31 GTexel / s
• 3.2x more pipelines: 2048 vs 640
• 3.8x better floating-point performance: 3,789 gflops vs 992.0 gflops
• Around 50% higher maximum memory size: 3 GB vs 2 GB
• Around 22% higher memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 4500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8870M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3702 3583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3357 3339
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3702 3583
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	GPU 1 GPU 2	3357 3339

Compare specifications (specs)