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Apple A15 Bionic GPU 5-Core vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
Comparison of the technical characteristics between the graphics cards, with Apple A15 Bionic GPU 5-Core on one side and AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM on the other side. The first is dedicated to the smartphone sector, with 160 execution units, it has 1280 shading units, a maximum frequency of 1.2 GHz, its lithography is 5 nm FinFET. The second is used on the desktop segment, it includes 2048 shading units, a maximum frequency of 0.9 GHz, its lithography is 28 nm. The following table also compares the boost clock, the number of shading units (if indicated), of execution units, the amount of cache memory, the maximum memory capacity, the memory bus width, the release date, the number of PCIe lanes, the values obtained in various benchmarks.
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Specification comparison:
| Graphics card | Apple A15 Bionic GPU 5-Core | AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM | ||||||
| Market (main) | Smartphone | Desktop | ||||||
| Release date | Q3 2021 | Q2 2013 | ||||||
| Model number | - | 215-0821060, Tahiti XT | ||||||
| GPU name | Apple Custom GPU | Tahiti | ||||||
| Architecture | - | GCN 1.0 | ||||||
| Generation | - | Sea Islands HD 8900 | ||||||
| Lithography | 5 nm FinFET | 28 nm | ||||||
| Transistors | 15,000,000,000 | 4,313,000,000 | ||||||
| Bus interface | IGP | PCIe 3.0 x16 | ||||||
| GPU base clock | 1,200 MHz | 925 MHz | ||||||
| GPU boost clock | 1,200 MHz | 925 MHz | ||||||
| TDP | - | 250 W | ||||||
| Cores (compute units, SM, SMX) | 5 | 32 | ||||||
| Execution units | 160 | - | ||||||
| Shading units | 1,280 | 2,048 | ||||||
| TMUs | - | 128 | ||||||
| ROPs | - | 32 | ||||||
| Cache memory | - | 768 KB | ||||||
| Performance FP32 (float) | 1.5 TFLOPS | 3.8 TFLOPS | ||||||
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Performance comparison with the benchmarks:
Performance comparison between the two processors, for this we consider the results generated on benchmark software such as Geekbench 4.
| FP32 Performance in GFLOPS | |
|---|---|
AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM |
3,789 |
| Apple A15 Bionic GPU 5-Core |
1,500 |
The difference is 153%.
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average of the performances got with these graphics cards, you may get different results.
average of the performances got with these graphics cards, you may get different results.
Single precision floating point format, also known as FP32, is a computer number format that typically occupies 32 bits in PC memory. This represents a wide dynamic range of numeric values that employs a floating point.
Smartphones with the graphics card Apple A15 Bionic GPU 5-Core:
Apple iPhone 13 ProApple iPhone 13 Pro MaxApple iPhone 14Apple iPhone 14 PlusProcessors with the graphics card Apple A15 Bionic GPU 5-Core:
Apple A15 BionicEquivalence:
Apple A15 Bionic GPU 5-Core Nvidia equivalentApple A15 Bionic GPU 5-Core AMD equivalentAMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM Nvidia equivalentDisclaimer:
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