AMD Introduces the World’s Fastest Notebook Graphics Card – Radeon HD 8970M
AMD today launched the AMD Radeon HD 8970M, the world’s fastest notebook graphics card. The AMD Radeon HD 8970M graphics processing unit (GPU) delivers the best mobile gaming experience imaginable to gamers, powered by AMD’s award-winning Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. In tests by AMD, the reference AMD Radeon HD 8970M showed higher average performance than NVIDIA’s highest performing single GPU mobile graphics card, the GeForce GTX 680M, in the 3DMark Fire Strike test with a score of FS4571 vs. FS3749 and in Crysis 3.
The AMD Radeon HD 8970M GPU has 1,280 compute cores running at 850MHz with GDDR5 memory running at 1200MHz or 4,800MHz effective. Notice that the AMD Radeon HD 8970M core is able to boost from 850MHz to 900MHz when there is enough thermal/voltage headroom to do so. This means the newest performance GPU may be merely a few per cent faster in some gaming titles. Pretty sweet stuff and it looks like AMD has taken the mobile performance crown for now, but we don’t expect NVIDIA to just stand there and watch.
“Today’s gaming notebooks need a graphics card that is fast, powerful and energy-efficient,” said Matt Skynner, corporate vice president and general manager, Graphics Business Unit, AMD. “The AMD Radeon HD 8970M GPU is the perfect combination of technologies, blending performance, immersive features and an extensive battery life that delivers an unrivaled gaming experience, even on the go.”
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