AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro 5500M

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

AMD Radeon Pro 5500M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500M 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

Lower TDP (75W vs 85W)

AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1450MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500M +241%

4.454 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

VS

Radeon Pro 5500M

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Nov 2019

Vancouver

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1450 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

24

-

960

Shading Units

1536

48

TMUs

96

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

46.40 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

139.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

8.909 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.454 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

278.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

85W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Navi 14

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

Navi 14 ULA

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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