AMD Radeon Pro 5600M vs AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Pro 5600M and AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

AMD Radeon Pro 5600M

AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Pro 5600M

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 5% higher core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 950 MHz
Around 3% higher boost clock speed: 1030 MHz vs 1000 MHz
77.4x more texture fill rate: 164.8 GTexel/s vs 2x 128.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 28 nm
7.5x lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 375 Watt
Around 33% higher maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 2x 3 GB
Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 687 vs 658
Around 79% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 9313 vs 5214

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	15 Jun 2020 vs 24 April 2013
Core clock speed	1000 MHz vs 950 MHz
Boost clock speed	1030 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Texture fill rate	164.8 GTexel/s vs 2x 128.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 375 Watt
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 2x 3 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	687 vs 658
PassMark - G3D Mark	9313 vs 5214

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

Around 60% higher pipelines: 2x 2048 vs 2560
7.8x more memory clock speed: 6000 MHz vs 770 MHz (1540 MHz effective)

Pipelines	2x 2048 vs 2560
Memory clock speed	6000 MHz vs 770 MHz (1540 MHz effective)

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Pro 5600M
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

687

658

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

9313

5214

Name	AMD Radeon Pro 5600M	AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM
Geekbench - OpenCL	48379
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	10296
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	10296
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3715
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3354
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3354
PassMark - G2D Mark	687	658
PassMark - G3D Mark	9313	5214
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		44.481
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1984.655
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		8.536
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		125.504
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		470.237

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Pro 5600M	AMD Radeon HD 8990 OEM
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 1.0	GCN 1.0
Code name	Navi 12	Malta
Launch date	15 Jun 2020	24 April 2013
Place in performance rating	271	320
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$999
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1030 MHz	1000 MHz
Compute units	40
Core clock speed	1000 MHz	950 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	28 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	329.6 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	10.55 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	5.274 TFLOPS
Pipelines	2560	2x 2048
Pixel fill rate	65.92 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	164.8 GTexel/s	2x 128.0 GTexel / s billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	375 Watt
Floating-point performance		2x 4,096 gflops
Transistor count		4,313 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 4x mini-DisplayPort
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
Width	IGP
Length		307 mm
API support
DirectX	12.1	12.0 (11_1)
OpenCL	2.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
High bandwidth memory (HBM)
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2x 3 GB
Memory bandwidth	394.2 GB/s	2x 288.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	2048 bit	2x 384 Bit
Memory clock speed	770 MHz (1540 MHz effective)	6000 MHz
Memory type	HBM2	GDDR5