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Radeon HD 8970M

Price and performance details for the Radeon HD 8970M can be found below. This is made using thousands of PerformanceTest benchmark results and is updated daily.

  • The first graph shows the relative performance of the videocard compared to the 10 other common videocards in terms of PassMark G3D Mark.
  • The 2nd graph shows the value for money, in terms of the G3DMark per dollar.

Radeon HD 8970M

Bus Interface: PCIe 3.0 x16

Max Memory Size: 4096 MB

Core Clock(s): 850 MHz

Memory Clock(s): 1200 MHz

DirectX: 11.1

OpenGL: 4.4

Max TDP: 100 W

Videocard Category: Mobile

Other names: AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Videocard First Benchmarked: 2014-04-28

G3DMark/Price: 27.69

Overall Rank:  610

Last Price Change:  $139.99 USD (2019-11-13)

Average G3D Mark
3876

Average G2D Mark: 807
Samples: 51

G3D Mark Distribution for Radeon HD 8970M

Submitted Baseline Distribution Graph as of 6th of September 2023


Not Enough Data to Create Distribution Graph.

From submitted results since PerformanceTest V10 as of 6th of September 2023.

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Pricing History

G3D Mark Relative to Top 10 Common Laptop Videocards
As of 13th of November 2025 - Higher results represent better performance
Videocard Average G3D Mark
GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU
 19,570
GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU
 17,411
GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU
 15,210
GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU
 14,332
GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU
 13,178
GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU
 10,066
GeForce RTX 3050 4GB Laptop GPU
 9,491
Radeon 780M
 6,915
Radeon HD 8970M
 		3,876
Radeon Vega 8
 1,569
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Popular comparisons for Radeon HD 8970M
As of 13th of November 2025 - Higher results represent better performance
Videocard Average G3D Mark
Radeon HD 8970M
 		3,876
GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU vs Radeon HD 8970M
 29,370 (+657.7%)
GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU vs Radeon HD 8970M
 27,083 (+598.7%)
GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop GPU vs Radeon HD 8970M
 26,704 (+588.9%)
GeForce RTX 4080 Laptop GPU vs Radeon HD 8970M
 24,829 (+540.6%)
RTX PRO 3000 Blackwell Generation Laptop GPU vs Radeon HD 8970M
 24,221 (+524.9%)
RTX 5000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU vs Radeon HD 8970M
 23,409 (+503.9%)
GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Laptop GPU vs Radeon HD 8970M
 23,207 (+498.7%)
Radeon RX 7900M vs Radeon HD 8970M
 22,224 (+473.4%)
RTX 4000 Ada Generation Laptop GPU vs Radeon HD 8970M
 22,039 (+468.6%)
Radeon 610M Ryzen 7 7840HX vs Radeon HD 8970M
 20,904 (+439.3%)
RTX 3500 Ada Generation Laptop GPU vs Radeon HD 8970M
 19,782 (+410.3%)
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