AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon RX 590 GME
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
May 2013
Mar 2020
Generation
Solar System
Polaris
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1257 MHz
Boost Clock
900 MHz
1420 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
45.44 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
72.00 GTexel/s
204.5 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.304 TFLOPS
6.543 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
144.0 GFLOPS
409.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.543 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Neptune
Polaris 20
GPU Variant
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Polaris 20 XTR(215-0910066)
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
175W
Outputs
No outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Suggested PSU
-
450 W
Power Connectors
-
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.7