AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs AMD Radeon RX 570 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M AMD Radeon RX 570 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 570 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 85W)

AMD Radeon RX 570 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1206MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 570 Mobile +278%

4.94 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

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Radeon RX 570 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Dec 2017

Vancouver

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

926 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1206 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1650 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

211.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

32

960

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.59 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

154.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.940 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.940 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

308.7 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Ellesmere

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

Ellesmere PRO

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

85W

-

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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