Radeon HD 8970M and Radeon RX 560X Mobile - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M
Radeon RX 560X Mobile
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Neptune
Polaris 11
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
January 2017
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1275 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1172 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
60-80 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
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
92.8 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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