AMD Radeon RX 5700M vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700M 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 5700M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 91% (1720MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700M +244%

7.926 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700M

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Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Mar 2020

Release Date

May 2013

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1465 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1720 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

20

2304

Shading Units

1280

144

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

8 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

110.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

247.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

15.85 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

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7.926 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

495.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Neptune

Navi 10 XML

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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