AMD announces 2.3TFLOPS Radeon HD 8970M
AMD has topped off its OEM-only Radeon HD 8000M series with the Radeon HD 8970M chip intended for gaming laptops.
AMD's Radeon HD 8000M broke cover at CES with the firm opting to rebrand its successful Graphics Core Next (GCN) GPU architecture for laptops. Now the firm has completed its mobile product range with the Radeon HD 8970M that will debut in MSI's GX70 laptop.
On paper AMD's Radeon HD 8970M reads more like a high-end desktop GPU, with 1,280 stream processors clocked at 850MHz that can be boosted to 900MHz, while the GDDR5 memory is clocked at 1,200MHz. AMD touted the GPU's compute performance with 2.3TFLOPS single precision floating point performance and 144GFLOPS double precision performance.