AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs AMD Radeon Pro 560X

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro 560X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 94.08GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro 560X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M +5%

2.176 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 560X

2.056 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

VS

Radeon Pro 560X

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jul 2018

London

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1470 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

94.08GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

16

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.06 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

64.26 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

2.056 TFLOPS

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.056 TFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

128.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

Polaris 21

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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