AMD Radeon HD 8970M
VS
AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile
AMD Radeon HD 8970M
VS
AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Radeon HD 8970M and AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

312
Place in performance rating
143
31.66
Value for money (0-100)
55.76
GCN
Architecture
Polaris
Neptune
Code name
Polaris 20
Laptop
Type
Laptop
15 May 2013 (8 years ago)
Release date
18 April 2017 (4 years ago)
no data
Launch price (MSRP)
$301.69
$135
Price now
$410 (1.4x MSRP)
8.93
Value for money
30.06
Neptune
GPU code name
Polaris
Laptop
Market segment
Laptop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Radeon HD 8970M and AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1280
Pipelines
2304
850 MHz
Core clock speed
1077 MHz
900 MHz
Boost Clock
1077 MHz
2,800 million
Transistor count
5,700 million
28 nm
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
100 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
72.00
Texture fill rate
155.1
2,304 gflops
Floating-point performance
4,963 gflops
1280
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
900 MHz
Boost clock speed
1077 MHz
2,800 million
Number of transistors
5,700 million
100 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
100 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Radeon HD 8970M and AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile.

PCIe 3.0 x16
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
large
Laptop size
large

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Radeon HD 8970M and AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile can be seen in this section.

GDDR5
Memory type
GDDR5
4 GB
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
4800 MHz
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
153.6 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Radeon HD 8970M and AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile, the size and number of monitors.

No outputs
Display Connectors
No outputs

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Radeon HD 8970M and AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Radeon HD 8970M and AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Radeon HD 8970M or AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8970M
AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8970M
AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8970M
AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8970M
AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Radeon HD 8970M
AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Radeon HD 8970M

Cheaper ($135 vs $410 (1.4x MSRP))

Advantages of AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile

24.62% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (2304 vs 1280)

Finer manufacturing process technology (14 nm vs 28 nm)

More maximum RAM amount (8 GB vs 4 GB)

More memory bandwidth (256.0 GB/s vs 153.6 GB/s)

So, AMD Radeon HD 8970M or AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile .

AMD Radeon HD 8970M versus AMD Radeon RX 580 Mobile performance benchmarks comparison

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