AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs AMD Radeon Pro 575X

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro 575X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon Pro 575X 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (217.6GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 575X +243%

4.489 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

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Radeon Pro 575X

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Mar 2019

Vancouver

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

217.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

32

960

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

35.07 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

140.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.489 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.489 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

280.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Polaris 20

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XL (215-0910052)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

232 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_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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