AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X 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 112.0GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X Mobile +67%

2.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

VS

Radeon RX 560X Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2019

Vancouver

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

14

-

960

Shading Units

896

48

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.57 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.49 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

2.192 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.192 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

137.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

65W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Polaris 31

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

Polaris 31 MXL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

3 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

123 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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