Product Compare

AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME

GPU GPU
Graphics Card
Release Date Apr 2012 Mar 2020
Generation London Polaris
Type Mobile Desktop
Bus Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock 1200 MHz 2000 MHz
Base Clock 1257 MHz
Boost Clock 1420 MHz
Memory
Memory Size 2GB 8GB
Memory Type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory Bus 256bit 256bit
Bandwidth 153.6GB/s 256.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units 20 36
Shading Units 1280 2304
TMUs 80 144
ROPs 32 32
L1 Cache 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache 512 KB 2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate 27.20 GPixel/s 45.44 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 68.00 GTexel/s 204.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) 2.176 TFLOPS 6.543 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) 136.0 GFLOPS 409.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) 6.543 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name Wimbledon Polaris 20
GPU Variant Wimbledon XT(216-0836036) Polaris 20 XTR(215-0910066)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process Size 28 nm 14 nm
Transistors 2.8 billion 5.7 billion
Die Size 212 mm² 232 mm²
Board Design
TDP 100W 175W
Outputs No outputs 1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors None 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU 450 W
Graphics Features
DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.3
Shader Model 5.1 6.7