AMD Radeon R5 430 OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R5 430 OEM and AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire 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 - 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).

AMD Radeon R5 430 OEM

AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 430 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 1 month(s) later
4x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 200 Watt

Launch date	30 June 2016 vs 1 May 2012
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 200 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

Around 16% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 730 MHz
Around 15% higher boost clock speed: 900 MHz vs 780 MHz
6.7x more pipelines: 2560 vs 384
2.7x more memory clock speed: 4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 730 MHz
Boost clock speed	900 MHz vs 780 MHz
Pipelines	2560 vs 384
Memory clock speed	4800 MHz vs 1800 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R5 430 OEM
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

Name	AMD Radeon R5 430 OEM	AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
PassMark - G3D Mark	896
PassMark - G2D Mark	304
Geekbench - OpenCL	5684
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	12.111
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	253.178
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.211
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	23.777
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	73.506
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	1645
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2426
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1677
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	1645
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2426
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1677

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon R5 430 OEM	AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	GCN
Code name	Oland	Neptune CF
Launch date	30 June 2016	1 May 2012
Place in performance rating	1199	not rated
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	780 MHz	900 MHz
Core clock speed	730 MHz	850 MHz
Floating-point performance	599.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	2560
Texture fill rate	18.72 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	200 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	11.1
OpenGL	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	4800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory		0