AMD Radeon HD 8970M Graphics Card

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Specifications

Generation
Solar System (HD 8900M)
GPU model
Neptune
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Base clock
850 MHz
Memory size
4 GB
DirectX
12 (11_1)
Release date
May 14th, 2013

Graphics Processor

GPU model
Neptune
GPU variant
Neptune XT (216-0847000)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
Manufacturing process
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
Die size
212 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
Boost clock
900 MHz
Memory clock
1200 MHz 4.8 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

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

Render Configuration

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

Performance

Pixel rate
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture rate
72.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance
144.0 GFLOPS (1:16)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width
MXM Module
TDP
100 W
Outputs
No outputs

API Support & Features

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

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