AMD Radeon HD 8570A vs AMD Radeon HD 8590M

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 8570A and AMD Radeon HD 8590M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon HD 8570A

AMD Radeon HD 8590M

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8570A

Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 825 MHz vs 750 MHz

Boost clock speed	825 MHz vs 750 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8590M

Around 20% higher pipelines: 384 vs 320
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 4500 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Pipelines	384 vs 320
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB
Memory clock speed	4500 MHz vs 2000 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 8570A	AMD Radeon HD 8590M
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 1.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Sun	Sun
Launch date	1 March 2013	1 March 2013
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon HD 8000M Series
Technical info
Boost clock speed	825 MHz	750 MHz
Core clock speed	750 MHz	750 MHz
Floating-point performance	528.0 gflops	528.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	320	384
Texture fill rate	16.5 GTexel / s	16.5 GTexel / s
Transistor count	1,040 million	1,040 million
Compute units		5
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-A (3.0)	PCIe 3.0 x8
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.5	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	36 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz	4500 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory		0