AMD Radeon RX 570 vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2017
Apr 2013
Generation
Polaris
Sea Islands
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1168 MHz
950 MHz
Boost Clock
1244 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
384bit
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
288.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
32
32
Shading Units
2048
2048
TMUs
128
128
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
39.81 GPixel/s
32.00 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
159.2 GTexel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
5.095 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
5.095 TFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
318.5 GFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Polaris 20
Malta
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XL(215-0910052)
Malta XT(215-0849026)
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
4.313 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
365 mm²
Board Design
TDP
150W
375W
Suggested PSU
450 W
750 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x DVI4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
Benchmark
3DMark Time Spy
3,851
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3DMark Time Spy Extreme
1,770
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Battlefield 5 1080p
69
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
18
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
34
—
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
52
—
Battlefield 5 2160p
27
—
Battlefield 5 1440p
51
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GTA 5 1080p
100
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▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.