AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro 460

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

AMD Radeon Pro 460

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro 460 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 81.28GB/s)

AMD Radeon Pro 460 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock907MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 460 +42%

1.858 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

VS

Radeon Pro 460

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Oct 2016

Vancouver

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

850 MHz

-

Boost Clock

907 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1270 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

81.28GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

16

-

960

Shading Units

1024

48

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.51 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.05 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1.858 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.858 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

116.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Baffin

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

Baffin XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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