AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile AMD Radeon HD 6970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1301MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

2624 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile +614%

9.326 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

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Radeon HD 6970M

Graphics Card

Jun 2018

Release Date

Jan 2011

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1138 MHz

Base Clock

-

1301 MHz

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

56

Compute Units

12

3584

Shading Units

960

224

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

83.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

291.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

18.65 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

9.326 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

582.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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