Radeon HD 8970M and Radeon RX 550 Mobile - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M
Radeon RX 550 Mobile
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Neptune
Polaris 12
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
March 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1476 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1287 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
1,647 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
640
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
51.48
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
96 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
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