AMD Radeon RX 560 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

VS

AMD Radeon RX 560 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 Mobile and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 560 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 15% (1032MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (55W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 109.4GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560 Mobile

1.849 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M +24%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2017

Release Date

May 2013

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

784 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1032 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1710 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

109.4GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

20

-

896

Shading Units

1280

56

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

57.79 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

1.849 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

115.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

55W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Baffin

GPU Name

Neptune

BaffinM-XT

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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