Radeon RX 5600 XT and Radeon HD 8970M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 5600 XT vs Radeon HD 8970M
Radeon RX 5600 XT
14074
Radeon HD 8970M
3992
Radeon RX 5600 XT
Radeon HD 8970M
Architecture
RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
Navi 10
Neptune
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
January 2020
May 2013
Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
1750 MHz
900 MHz
Core clock speed
1235 MHz
850 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
2,304 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
7 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
10,300 million
2,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
1280
Power consumption (TDP)
150 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
224.6
72.00
Memory type
GDDR6
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
14000 MHz
4800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
288.0 GB/s
153.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (11_1)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.5
5.1
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131