AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 5600M

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition AMD Radeon RX 5600M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 5600M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1265MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5600M +346%

5.829 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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Radeon RX 5600M

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Jul 2020

Vancouver

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1035 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1265 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

36

960

Shading Units

2304

48

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.96 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

11.66 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.829 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

364.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Navi 10

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

Navi 10 XME

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

10.3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

251 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

150W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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