|
| 6.5 Out of 10 |  |
GPUBoss Review Our evaluation of the Radeon HD 8970M among Laptop GPUs over 35W TDP
Gaming | |
| | |
| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 21 more | |
Graphics | |
| | |
| T-Rex, Manhattan, Sky Diver Factor and Fire Strike Factor | |
Computing | |
| | |
| Face Detection, Ocean Surface Simulation and 3 more | |
Performance per Watt | |
| | |
| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 31 more | |
Value | |
| | |
| Battlefield 3, Battlefield 4, Bioshock Infinite and 31 more | |
Noise and Power | |
| | |
| TDP, Idle Power Consumption, Load Power Consumption and 2 more | |
| 6.5 | Overall Score |
| | |
Benchmarks Real world tests of the Radeon HD 8970M
Bitcoin mining Data courtesy CompuBench
Face detection Data courtesy CompuBench
T-Rex (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Manhattan (GFXBench 3.0) Data courtesy CompuBench
Fire Strike Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Sky Diver Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
Thief
Battlefield 4
Specifications Full list of technical specs
gpu
| GPU brand | AMD |
|---|---|
| GPU name | Neptune |
| Market | Laptop |
| Clock speed | 850 MHz |
| Turbo clock speed | 900 MHz |
| Is dual GPU | No |
| Reference card | None |
raw performance
| Shading units | 1,280 |
|---|---|
| Texture mapping units | 80 |
| Render output processors | 32 |
| Compute units | 20 |
| Pixel rate | 28.8 GPixel/s |
| Texture rate | 72 GTexel/s |
| Floating-point performance | 2,304 GFLOPS |
memory
| Memory clock speed | 1,200 MHz |
|---|---|
| Effective memory clock speed | 4,800 MHz |
| Memory bus | 256 bit |
| Memory | 4,096 MB |
| Memory type | GDDR5 |
| Memory bandwidth | 153.6 GB/s |
noise and power
| TDP | 100W |
|---|
Report a correction Follow us
Compare
Competitors
 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 780M
|
 | AMD Radeon HD 7970M
|
 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 860M
|
 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 770M
|
 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 765M
|
 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 960M
|
 | AMD Radeon R9 M290X
|
Popular Comparisons
 | VS |  |
| $267 | ||
| 1060 vs RX 580 | ||
| | VS |  |
| $267 | ||
| 1060 vs 1050 Ti | ||
 | VS | |
| $267 | ||
| 970 vs 1060 | ||
| | VS | |
| 970 vs 1050 Ti | ||
| | VS |  |
| 970 vs 960 | ||
| | VS | |
| 960 vs 1050 Ti | ||
| | VS |  |
| 970 vs R9 390 | ||
Read more
Comments
Showing 2 comments.
