AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 560

VS

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM AMD Radeon RX 560

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1275MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +45%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560

2.611 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

Radeon RX 560

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Apr 2017

Sea Islands

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1175 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

128bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

32

Compute Units

16

2048

Shading Units

1024

128

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

2.611 TFLOPS

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.611 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

163.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

Polaris 21

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

3 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

75W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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