Radeon HD 8970M and Radeon RX 560X - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 8970M vs Radeon RX 560X
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
Radeon RX 560X
3292
Radeon HD 8970M
Radeon RX 560X
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
Neptune
Polaris 21
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
May 2013
April 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1275 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1175 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
2,611 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
81.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
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