Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs Intel Arctic Sound 1T
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | May 2013 | Jan 2021 |
| Generation | Solar System | Xe Graphics |
| Type | Mobile | Professional |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 850 MHz | |
| Boost Clock | 900 MHz | |
| Memory Clock | 1200 MHz | 1200 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 4GB | 16GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | HBM2e |
| Memory Bus | 256bit | 4096bit |
| Bandwidth | 153.6GB/s | 1229GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 20 | |
| Shading Units | 1280 | 6144 |
| TMUs | 80 | 192 |
| ROPs | 32 | 96 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | |
| L2 Cache | 512 KB | 8 MB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 28.80 GPixel/s | 86.40 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 72.00 GTexel/s | 172.8 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.304 TFLOPS | 11.06 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 144.0 GFLOPS | 2.765 TFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 22.12 TFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Neptune | Arctic Sound |
| GPU Variant | Neptune XT(216-0847000) | |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | Generation 12.5 |
| Foundry | TSMC | Intel |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 10 nm |
| Transistors | 2.8 billion | 8 billion |
| Die Size | 212 mm² | 190 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 100W | 350W |
| Outputs | No outputs | No outputs |
| Suggested PSU | 750 W | |
| Power Connectors | None | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 12 (12_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | N/A |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 6.5 |