AMD has announced a new mobile GPU flagship, the Radeon HD 8970M. Unfortunately, as exciting as it sounds, the new Radeon HD 8970M is nothing more than a rebrand of the HD 7970M that has been around for quite some time.

Specification wise, the new Radeon HD 8970M is still based on the Pitcairn GP, features 1280 stream processors but this time around it can Boost up to 900MHz. In short, the HD 8970M ends up to be the HD 7970M with a 50MHz higher boost clock. According to AMD slides, this was enough for HD 8970M to beat Nvidia's flagship GTX 680M in most game titles and while the GTX 780M is just around a corner we might see a big battle on the mobile GPU front.

Unfortunately, it is not clear if the GTX 780M will be just a rebrand/higher-clocked GK104 chip or will Nvidia actually decided to implement new features. Of course, AMD will most likely retain the price advantage.

In any case, the new Radeon HD 8970M and expect it to show up in some of those gaming notebooks.





Source: AMD.com.