AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 580

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

AMD Radeon RX 580

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 256.0GB/s)

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (185W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580 +62%

6.175 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

Radeon RX 580

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Apr 2017

Sea Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1340 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

36

-

2048

Shading Units

2304

128

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.88 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

193.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.175 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.175 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

385.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

185W

600 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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