AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8950M and AMD Radeon HD 8970M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. 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 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon HD 8950M

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8950M

Around 26% higher core clock speed: 1075 MHz vs 850 MHz
Around 15% higher memory clock speed: 5500 MHz vs 4800 MHz

Core clock speed	1075 MHz vs 850 MHz
Memory clock speed	5500 MHz vs 4800 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Around 40% higher texture fill rate: 72 GTexel / s vs 51.6 GTexel / s
Around 67% higher pipelines: 1280 vs 768
Around 40% better floating-point performance: 2,304 gflops vs 1,651 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 2 GB

Texture fill rate	72 GTexel / s vs 51.6 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1280 vs 768
Floating-point performance	2,304 gflops vs 1,651 gflops
Maximum memory size	4 GB vs 2 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 8950M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Name	AMD Radeon HD 8950M	AMD Radeon HD 8970M
PassMark - G3D Mark		3876
PassMark - G2D Mark		807
Geekbench - OpenCL		20588
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		57.241
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1223.742
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		5.78
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		89.306
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		268.643
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		2521
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2595
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		2521
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3688
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2595
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8950M	AMD Radeon HD 8970M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 2.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Saturn	Neptune
Launch date	14 May 2013	14 May 2013
Place in performance rating	not rated	555
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Technical info
Core clock speed	1075 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,651 gflops	2,304 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	768	1280
Texture fill rate	51.6 GTexel / s	72 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	2,080 million	2,800 million
Boost clock speed		850 MHz
Compute units		20
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	11
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	4 GB
Memory bandwidth	88 GB / s	153.6 GB/s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	5500 MHz	4800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
PowerTune
ZeroCore