Radeon HD 8970M vs Radeon HD 7870M

  AMD

Developer

  AMD

  Radeon HD 8970M

Model

  Radeon HD 7870M

  -

benchmarks
Total performance

  -

  GCN(Neptune)

Architecture

  GCN(Heathrow XT)

  28

Process, nm

  28

  1280

Shaders

  640

  850

Core frequency

  800

  900

Core frequency (turbo mode)

  -

  -

Shaders frequency

  800

  GDDR5

Memory type

  GDDR5

  4800

Memory frequency

  4000

  256

Memory bus

  128

  11.1

DirectX

  11.1

  4.2

OpenGL

  4.2