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

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

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

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

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 64.00GB/s)

2784 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

1.28 TFLOPS

Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile +628%

9.326 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

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Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2018

Vancouver

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1138 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1301 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

128bit

Memory Bus

2048bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

409.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

56

800

Shading Units

3584

40

TMUs

224

16

ROPs

64

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

83.26 GPixel/s

32.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

291.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

18.65 TFLOPS

1280 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

9.326 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

582.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Broadway

GPU Name

Vega 10

Broadway XT

GPU Variant

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

12.5 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

495 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

120W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

-

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

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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