Product Compare
AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | May 2013 | Apr 2017 |
| Generation | Solar System | Mobility Radeon |
| Type | Mobile | Mobile |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | MXM-B (3.0) |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Base Clock | 850 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 900 MHz | 1077 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1200 MHz | 2000 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 4GB | 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 | 28.80 GPixel/s | 34.46 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 72.00 GTexel/s | 155.1 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.304 TFLOPS | 4.963 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 144.0 GFLOPS | 310.2 GFLOPS |
| FP16 (half) | 4.963 TFLOPS | |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Neptune | Polaris 20 |
| GPU Variant | Neptune XT(216-0847000) | Polaris 20M XT |
| 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 | 100W |
| Outputs | No outputs | No outputs |
| Power Connectors | None | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 12 (12_0) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 2.1 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 6.4 |