AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon Pro W6500M

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AMD Radeon HD 8970M AMD Radeon Pro W6500M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M and 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6500M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon Pro W6500M 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 127% (2040MHz vs 900MHz)

Lower TDP (25W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6500M +81%

4.178 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

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Radeon Pro W6500M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Unknown

Solar System

Generation

Radeon Pro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x4

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

1512 MHz

900 MHz

Boost Clock

2040 MHz

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

16

1280

Shading Units

1024

80

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

16

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB per Array

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.28 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

130.6 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

8.356 TFLOPS

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.178 TFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

261.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Navi 24

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Navi 24

GCN 1.0

Architecture

RDNA 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

6 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

5.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

107 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.2

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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