AMD Radeon RX 6700M vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 10GB VRAM Radeon RX 6700M and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6700M 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 167% (2400MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (10GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 135W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6700M +380%

11.06 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6700M

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

May 2021

Release Date

May 2013

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1489 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

2400 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

10GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

160bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

20

2304

Shading Units

1280

144

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

153.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

345.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

22.12 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

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11.06 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

691.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 22

GPU Name

Neptune

Navi 22

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

335 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

135W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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