AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 6650M

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

AMD Radeon RX 6650M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 6650M 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 120W)

AMD Radeon RX 6650M 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock2416MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6650M +563%

8.659 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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Radeon RX 6650M

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Jan 2022

Vancouver

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2068 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2416 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

28

-

960

Shading Units

1792

48

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

64

-

RT Cores

28

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

L3 Cache

32 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

154.6 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

270.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

17.32 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.659 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

541.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

120W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Navi 23

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

11.06 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

237 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

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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