AMD Cedar
VS
AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
AMD Cedar
VS
AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Cedar and AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
155
TeraScale 2
Architecture
GCN
Cedar
Code name
Neptune CF
Desktop
Type
Laptop
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Release date
1 May 2012 (9 years ago)
$17.81
Price now
$170
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Value for money
35.05
Cedar
GPU code name
Neptune CF
Desktop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Cedar and AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

80
Pipelines
2560
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Core clock speed
850 MHz
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Boost Clock
900 MHz
292 million
Transistor count
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40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
80
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
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Boost clock speed
900 MHz
292 million
Number of transistors
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Thermal design power (TDP)
200 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Cedar and AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire.

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Laptop size
large

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Cedar and AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
GDDR5
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Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
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Shared memory
-

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Cedar and AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
DirectX 11.1, Shader 5.0
4.4
OpenGL
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Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cedar and AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Cedar or AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cedar
AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cedar
AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cedar
AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cedar
AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cedar
AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Cedar

Cheaper ($17.81 vs $170)

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire

43.57% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (2560 vs 80)

Finer manufacturing process technology (28 nm vs 40 nm)

So, AMD Cedar or AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire .

AMD Cedar versus AMD Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire performance benchmarks comparison

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Cedar
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