AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 4GB VRAM Radeon 550X Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 550X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1287MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X Mobile +26%

1.647 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

VS

Radeon 550X Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Apr 2018

Vancouver

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1100 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1287 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

10

-

960

Shading Units

640

48

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.59 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.48 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1.647 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.647 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

103.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Polaris 23

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

Polaris 23 MXT

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

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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