AMD Radeon RX 580X Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

GPU · Specs Compare

Products
GPU AMD Radeon RX 580X Mobile AMD · 2018-04
GPU AMD Radeon HD 8970M AMD · 2013-05
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2018
May 2013
Generation
Mobility Radeon
Solar System
Type
Mobile
Mobile
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1000 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1077 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
36
20
Shading Units
2304
1280
TMUs
144
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
34.46 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
155.1 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
4.963 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
4.963 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
310.2 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Polaris 20
Neptune
GPU Variant
Polaris 20M XT
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
100W
100W
Outputs
No outputs
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
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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
▲ Specs Compare Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.