Radeon RX 5700M vs E9172 MXM

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)RDNA 1.0 (2019−2020)
GPU code nameLexaNavi 10
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date3 October 2017 (7 years ago)1 March 2020 (4 years 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 cores5122304
Core clock speed1124 MHz1465 MHz
Boost clock speed1219 MHz1720 MHz
Number of transistors2,200 million10,300 million
Manufacturing process technology14 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt180 Watt
Texture fill rate39.01247.7
Floating-point processing power1.248 TFLOPS7.926 TFLOPS
ROPs1664
TMUs32144

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfaceMXM-A (3.0)PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth48 GB/s384.0 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.46.5
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.1
Vulkan1.2.1311.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 October 2017 1 March 2020
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 8 GB
Chip lithography 14 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 180 Watt

E9172 MXM has 414.3% lower power consumption.

RX 5700M, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon E9172 MXM and Radeon RX 5700M. We've got no test results to judge.


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