AMD Radeon RX 560DX vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Apr 2018
May 2013
Generation
Polaris
Solar System
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1090 MHz
850 MHz
Boost Clock
1175 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
4GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
128bit
256bit
Bandwidth
96.00GB/s
153.6GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
14
20
Shading Units
896
1280
TMUs
56
80
ROPs
16
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
1024 KB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
18.80 GPixel/s
28.80 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
65.80 GTexel/s
72.00 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
2.106 TFLOPS
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FP32 (float)
2.106 TFLOPS
2.304 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
131.6 GFLOPS
144.0 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Polaris 21
Neptune
GPU Variant
Polaris 21 XL
Neptune XT(216-0847000)
Architecture
GCN 4.0
GCN 1.0
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
28 nm
Transistors
3 billion
2.8 billion
Die Size
123 mm²
212 mm²
Board Design
TDP
65W
100W
Suggested PSU
250 W
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Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a
No outputs
Power Connectors
None
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Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_0)
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
1.2
Shader Model
6.4
5.1
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.