Radeon HD 8970M and Radeon RX 5700M - video card comparison
Radeon HD 8970M
Radeon RX 5700M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Navi / RDNA (2019−2020)
GPU code name
Neptune
Navi 10 / R19M-E120
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2013
March 2020
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
1720 MHz
Core clock speed
850 MHz
1465 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
10,300 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
120 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
247.7
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
4800 MHz
12000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
384.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.5
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2