AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega M GL and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX Vega M GL 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1011MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega M GL +98%

2.588 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega M GL

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Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2018

Release Date

Aug 2011

Vega

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

IGP

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

931 MHz

Base Clock

-

1011 MHz

Boost Clock

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

1024bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

12

1280

Shading Units

960

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.35 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

80.88 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

2.588 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.588 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

161.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 22

GPU Name

Blackcomb

VegaM XL (D715A714)

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

208 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

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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