HD Graphics 10EU vs Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking337not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency6.49no data
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)Generation 7.5 (2013)
GPU code nameNeptune CFHaswell GT1
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 May 2012 (13 years ago)29 April 2013 (12 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores256080
Core clock speed850 MHz200 MHz
Boost clock speed900 MHz1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology28 nm22 nm
Power consumption (TDP)200 Watt45 Watt
Texture fill rateno data10.00
Floating-point processing powerno data0.16 TFLOPS
ROPsno data1
TMUsno data10

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataRing Bus
Widthno dataIGP

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amountno dataSystem Shared
Memory bus width2x 256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed4800 MHzSystem Shared
Shared memory-+

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectorsno dataMotherboard Dependent

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.112 (11_1)
Shader Modelno data5.1
OpenGLno data4.3
OpenCLno data1.2
Vulkan-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2012 29 April 2013
Chip lithography 28 nm 22 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 200 Watt 45 Watt

HD Graphics 10EU has an age advantage of 11 months, a 27.3% more advanced lithography process, and 344.4% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and HD Graphics 10EU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire is a notebook graphics card while HD Graphics 10EU is a desktop one.

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