GPU Comparison

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AMD

RADEON

AMD Radeon RX 560

CORE STATE Polaris 21

VRAM 4 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1275 MHz

TDP 75 W

BUS WIDTH 128 bit

ARCHITECTURE GCN 4.0

nm

PROCESS 14 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2017

VS

NVIDIA

GEFORCE

GeForce GTX 970M

CORE STATE GM204

VRAM 6 GB

CLOCK SPEED 1038 MHz

TDP —

BUS WIDTH 192 bit

ARCHITECTURE Maxwell 2.0

nm

PROCESS 28 nm

LAUNCH DATE 2014

PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS

geekbench_metal

23,597

N/A

geekbench_opencl

16,234

18,991

passmark_directx_10

16

28

passmark_directx_11

25

42

passmark_directx_12

21

24

passmark_directx_9

57

99

passmark_g2d

485

381

passmark_g3d

3,671

5,704

passmark_gpu_compute

1,437

2,289

3dmark_3dmark_steel_nomad_dx12

N/A

472

geekbench_vulkan

N/A

18,516

DETAILED SPECIFICATIONS

SPECIFICATION

RX 560

GTX 970M

Core Specs

Shading Units

1,024

1,280 +25.0%

Shaders

1,024

1,280 +25.0%

TMUs

64

80 +25.0%

ROPs

16

48 +200.0%

Compute Units

16

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Clocks

Base Clock

1175 MHz

924 MHz

Boost Clock

1275 MHz

1038 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz 7 Gbps effective

1253 MHz 5 Gbps effective

Memory

Memory Size

4 GB

6 GB

VRAM (MB)

4,096

6,144 +50.0%

Memory Type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Memory Bus

128 bit

192 bit

Bandwidth

112.0 GB/s

120.3 GB/s

Cache

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB (per SMM)

L2 Cache

1024 KB

1536 KB

Performance

Pixel Rate

20.40 GPixel/s

49.82 GPixel/s

Texture Rate

81.60 GTexel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

FP32 (TFLOPS)

2.611 TFLOPS

2.657 TFLOPS

FP64 (TFLOPS)

163.2 GFLOPS (1:16)

83.04 GFLOPS (1:32)

FP16 (TFLOPS)

2.611 TFLOPS (1:1)

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Power

TDP

75 W

—

TDP (W)

75

—

Suggested PSU

250 W

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Power Connectors

None

None

Architecture

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Maxwell 2.0

GPU Name

Polaris 21

GM204

Generation

Polaris (RX 500)

GeForce 900M

Process Size

14 nm

28 nm

Transistors

3,000 million

5,200 million

Die Size

123 mm²

398 mm²

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

TSMC

Density

24.4M / mm²

13.1M / mm²

API Support

DirectX

12 (12_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Vulkan

1.3

1.4

OpenCL

2.1

3.0

CUDA

—

5.2

Shader Model

6.7

6.8

Physical

Slot Width

Dual-slot

MXM Module

Length

170 mm 6.7 inches

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Outputs

1x DVI1x HDMI 2.0b1x DisplayPort 1.4a

Portable Device Dependent

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

MXM-B (3.0)

Other

Launch Price

99 USD

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Production

End-of-life

End-of-life

Predecessor

Arctic Islands

GeForce 800M

Successor

Vega

GeForce 10 Mobile

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