AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon Vega 3 Mobile

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Neptune Picasso
GPU variant Neptune XT (216-0847000)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 5.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Manufacturing process 28 nm 14 nm
Number of transistors 2,800 million 4,940 million
Die size 212 mm² 210 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date May 14th, 2013
Generation Solar System (HD 8900M)
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16
Predecessor London
Successor Crystal System

Clocks

Base clock 850 MHz 300 MHz
Boost clock 900 MHz 1000 MHz
Memory clock 1200 MHz 4.8 Gbps effective System Shared

Memory Configuration

Memory size 4 GB System Shared
Memory type GDDR5 System Shared
Memory bus width 256 bit System Shared
Bandwidth 153.6 GB/s System Dependent

Render Configuration

Shading units 1280 192
TMUs 80 12
ROPs 32 4
Compute units 20 3
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 512 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 28.80 GPixel/s 4.000 GPixel/s
Texture rate 72.00 GTexel/s 12.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 2.304 TFLOPS 384.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 144.0 GFLOPS (1:16) 24.00 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (half) performance 768.0 GFLOPS (2:1)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width MXM Module IGP
TDP 100 W 15 W
Outputs No outputs No outputs

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader model 5.1 6.4

Other Features

Integrated Graphics

Release date Jan 6th, 2020
Generation Picasso (Vega Mobile)
Production Active
Interface IGP
Predecessor Raven Ridge
Successor Renoir

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