AMD Radeon Pro V520 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

AMD Radeon Pro V520

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro V520 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro V520 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1600MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 176.0GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (225W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro V520 +172%

7.373 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

2.703 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro V520

VS

Radeon HD 6970

Graphics Card

Dec 2020

Release Date

Dec 2010

Radeon Pro

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

24

-

2304

Shading Units

1536

144

TMUs

96

64

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.16 GPixel/s

230.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

14.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.373 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

460.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

225W

TDP

250W

550 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 12

GPU Name

Cayman

Navi 12

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 3

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

2.64 billion

Unknown

Die Size

389 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.2

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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