Radeon RX 460 Mobile vs Radeon HD 6970M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 460 Mobile and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon RX 460 Mobile 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1180MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Lower TDP (55W vs 75W)
Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 460 Mobile
+61%
2115
Radeon HD 6970M
1306
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Jan 2011
Mobility Radeon
Generation
Vancouver
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-B (3.0)
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
-
1180 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
80.00GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
14
Compute Units
12
896
Shading Units
960
56
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
32
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
18.88 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.76 GPixel/s
66.08 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.64 GTexel/s
2.115 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
2.115 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1306 GFLOPS
132.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
55W
TDP
75W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Baffin
GPU Name
Blackcomb
Baffin XT
GPU Variant
Blackcomb XT
(216-0811000)
GCN 4.0
Architecture
TeraScale 2
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
3 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
123 mm²
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
6.4
Shader Model
5.0
