AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 2GB VRAM Radeon E9173 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon E9173 PCIe 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1219MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M +4%

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon E9173 PCIe

1.248 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

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Radeon E9173 PCIe

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Oct 2017

Vancouver

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1124 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1219 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

8

960

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.50 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.01 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1248 GFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1248 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

78.02 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Lexa

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

E9170

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

35W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x DisplayPort 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.4a

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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