AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 16 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1190MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (307.2GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 16 +86%

2.437 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 16

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Nov 2018

Vancouver

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

815 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1190 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

1024bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

307.2GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

16

-

960

Shading Units

1024

48

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.08 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.16 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.874 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.437 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

152.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Vega 12

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

Vega 12 XLA

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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