AMD Radeon Pro 5500M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M

VS

AMD Radeon Pro 5500M

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro 5500M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1450MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro 5500M +241%

4.454 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro 5500M

VS

Radeon HD 6970M

Graphics Card

Nov 2019

Release Date

Jan 2011

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1450 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

12

-

1536

Shading Units

960

96

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

46.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

139.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

8.909 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.454 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

278.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

85W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Navi 14 ULA

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

158 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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