AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970M

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 16 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1190MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (307.2GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 16 +11%

2.437 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

VS

Radeon Pro Vega 16

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Nov 2018

London

Generation

Radeon Pro Mac

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

815 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1190 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

HBM2

256bit

Memory Bus

1024bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

307.2GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

16

-

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.08 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

76.16 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.874 TFLOPS

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.437 TFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

152.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

Vega 12

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

Vega 12 XLA

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 5.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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