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by Peter-Scott (May, 2013)AMD has announced the HD 8970M, its new flagship mobile GPU, a mobile beast featuring 1280 stream processors and GPU clocks up to 900MHu with boost.
by Anthony-Garreffa (Sep, 2012)Well, it appears as though AMD are looking to launch their next-gen high-end GPUs as soon as early-2013 with some out of this world naming.
Features Key features of the Radeon HD 8970
memory bandwidth Rate at which data can be read from or stored in onboard memory
pixel rate Number of pixels a graphics card can render to the screen every second
texture rate Speed at which a graphics card can perform texture mapping
floating point performance How fast the gpu can crunch numbers
shading units Subcomponents of the gpu, these run in parallel to enable fast pixel shading
texture mapping units Built into each gpu, these resize and rotate bitmaps for texturing scenes
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We should expect a 1000MHz Base Clock, 2304 Stream Processors, 48 RO's, 3GB of GDDR5, a 384-bit memory bus and a 250W TDP.
| 12 Jun |
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The card appears to feature a cut-down version of the Radeon HD 7990’s cooling design that curiously seems to have left between 1/4 and 1/3 uncovered by the two cooling fans.
| 15 May |
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AMD has announced the HD 8970M, its new flagship mobile GPU, a mobile beast featuring 1280 stream processors and GPU clocks up to 900MHu with boost.
Of course, anyone in the market for a proper high-end mobile GPU should probably hold out for 20nm GPUs, as neither AMD or NV won't offer anything really new while they're stuck at 28nm.
| 15 May |
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Regarding the performance, AMD boasts a handful of numbers compared to the GTX 680M.
The notebook features an A10-series quad-core CPU, the HD 8970M discrete graphics card, Killer networking, and a 17" FullHD anti-glare LCD panel.
Specifications Full list of technical specs
gpu
| GPU brand | AMD |
|---|---|
| GPU name | Curaçao XT |
| Market | Desktop |
| Clock speed | 1,050 MHz |
| Is dual GPU | No |
| Reference card | None |
raw performance
| Shading units | 2,560 |
|---|---|
| Texture mapping units | 128 |
| Render output processors | 48 |
| Compute units | 40 |
| Pixel rate | 50.4 GPixel/s |
| Texture rate | 168 GTexel/s |
| Floating-point performance | 5,376 GFLOPS |
memory
| Memory clock speed | 1,500 MHz |
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| Effective memory clock speed | 6,000 MHz |
| Memory bus | 384 bit |
| Memory | 3,072 MB |
| Memory type | GDDR5 |
| Memory bandwidth | 288 GB/s |
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 | AMD Radeon HD 7970
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 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 780
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 | Nvidia GeForce GTX TITAN
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 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 770
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 | AMD Radeon R9 290X
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 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080
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 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 970
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Other Radeon HD 8970s
 | AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
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