AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon Pro W5500M

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M AMD Radeon Pro W5500M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro W5500M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W5500M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 89% (1700MHz vs 900MHz)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (85W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W5500M +107%

4.787 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

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Radeon Pro W5500M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Feb 2020

Solar System

Generation

Radeon Pro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

1700 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

22

1280

Shading Units

1408

80

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

54.40 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

149.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

9.574 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.787 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

299.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Navi 14

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 PRO XTM

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

7 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

85W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.5

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