Radeon RX 7900M vs RX 5700M

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated33
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data22.69
ArchitectureRDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameNavi 10Navi 31
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date1 March 2020 (4 years ago)19 October 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores23044608
Core clock speed1465 MHz1825 MHz
Boost clock speed1720 MHz2090 MHz
Number of transistors10,300 million57,700 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)180 Watt180 Watt
Texture fill rate247.7601.9
Floating-point processing power7.926 TFLOPS38.52 TFLOPS
ROPs64192
TMUs144288
Ray Tracing Coresno data72

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargelarge
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth384.0 GB/s576.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.12.2
Vulkan1.31.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2020 19 October 2023
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 5 nm

RX 7900M has an age advantage of 3 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 40% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 5700M and Radeon RX 7900M. We've got no test results to judge.


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