Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire and Radeon RX 5500M - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M Crossfire
Radeon RX 5500M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Navi / RDNA (2019−2020)
GPU code name
Neptune CF
Navi 14 / R19M-E85
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2012
September 2019
Interface
-
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1645 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1327 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
-
6,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
1408
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
85 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
144.8
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
-
4 GB
Memory bus width
2x 256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
224.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
11.1
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
-
2.0
OpenGL
-
4.6
Shader Model
-
6.5
Vulkan
-
1.2.131