ATI Radeon IGP 345M vs HD 8970M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	515	1606
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	7.14	no data
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Rage 6 (2000−2007)
GPU code name	Neptune	RS200
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Release date	14 May 2013 (12 years ago)	5 October 2002 (23 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 cores	1280	no data
Core clock speed	850 MHz	183 MHz
Boost clock speed	900 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	2,800 million	30 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	180 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	72.00	0.37
Floating-point processing power	2.304 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	2
TMUs	80	2
L1 Cache	320 KB	no data
L2 Cache	512 KB	no data

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 size	large	no data
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

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 type	GDDR5	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	4 GB	System Shared
Memory bus width	256 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	153.6 GB/s	no data
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 Connectors

No outputs

No outputs

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	7.0
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	1.4
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Synthetic benchmarks

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD

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no data

FPS performance in popular games

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	14 May 2013	5 October 2002
Chip lithography	28 nm	180 nm