AMD Radeon HD 6450M vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6450M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

1120 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6450M

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M +1033%

2.176 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6450M

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Radeon HD 7970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Apr 2012

Vancouver

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

12.80GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

2

Compute Units

20

160

Shading Units

1280

8

TMUs

80

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

4.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Seymour

GPU Name

Wimbledon

Seymour PRO S3 (216-0809024)

GPU Variant

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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