AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 640 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition AMD Radeon RX 640 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 640 Mobile 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 48.00GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 640 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1218MHz

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 640 Mobile +19%

1.559 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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Radeon RX 640 Mobile

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

May 2019

Vancouver

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1082 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

10

960

Shading Units

640

48

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.72 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1.559 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.559 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

97.44 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Polaris 23

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

Polaris 23 XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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