AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M

AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 540X 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 96.00GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 540X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1211MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M +5%

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 540X Mobile

1.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

VS

Radeon RX 540X 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

1124 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1211 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

8

-

960

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.38 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.75 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

1240 GFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1240 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

77.50 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 MXL

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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