AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs AMD Radeon RX 6500M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 6500M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 6500M 's Advantages

Released 11 years late

Boost Clock2400MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6500M +276%

4.915 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

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Radeon RX 6500M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2022

Vancouver

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2000 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2400 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

144.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

16

960

Shading Units

1024

48

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

76.80 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

153.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.830 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.915 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

307.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Navi 24

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

Navi 24 XM

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

6 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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