AMD Radeon RX 580 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2017
May 2013
Generation
Polaris
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1257 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1340 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
256bit
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
36
20
Shading Units
2304
1280
TMUs
144
80
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
2 MB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
42.88 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
193.0 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
6.175 TFLOPS
-
FP32 (float)
6.175 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
385.9 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Polaris 20
Neptune
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XTX(215-0910038)
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
5.7 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
232 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
185W
100W
Suggested PSU
450 W
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Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
-
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
1.2
Shader Model
6.7
5.1