Radeon HD 8970M vs 7970M |
Released May, 2013
AMD Radeon HD 8970M
- 850 MHz
- 4 GB GDDR5
7.1 Out of 10
by Niels-Broekhuijsen (May, 2013)The Radeon HD 8970M GPU will feature 1280 stream processors, 80 TMUs, 128 Z/Stencil ROPs, and 32 Color ROPs.
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Released April, 2012
AMD Radeon HD 7970M
- 850 MHz
- 2 GB GDDR5
7.2 Out of 10
by Joel-Hruska (Mar, 2013)The productivity improvements from a dual display are very real, and while 3x monitors are only a boost if you work with multiple full-screen programs simultaneously, the additional cost is smaller if you’re looking to build a dual-monitor workstation to begin with.
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of 8970M vs 7970M among Laptop GPUs over 35W TDP
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
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| T-Rex, Manhattan, Sky Diver Factor and Fire Strike Factor | |
Computing | |
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| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 31 more | |
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| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 31 more | |
Noise and Power | |
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| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
No winner declared
Too close to call
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Differences What are the advantages of each
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| More memory | 4,096 MB | vs | 2,048 MB | 2x more memory | |||
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| Much higher diablo III framerate | 115.8 fps | vs | 94.1 fps | Around 25% higher diablo III framerate | |||
| Higher crysis 3 framerate | 22 fps | vs | 20.3 fps | Around 10% higher crysis 3 framerate | |||
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| Significantly better 3DMark06 score | 22,370.5 | vs | 18,211.5 | Around 25% better 3DMark06 score | |||
| Much better T-Rex score | 3,339.58 | vs | 1,938.41 | More than 70% better T-Rex score | |||
| Better CLBenchmark raytrace score | 175,685 | vs | 171,969 | Almost the same | |||
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