AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M

VS

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 16 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 Vega 16 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1190MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (307.2GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 16 +86%

2.437 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 16

VS

Radeon HD 6970M

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Jan 2011

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

815 MHz

Base Clock

-

1190 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

1024bit

Memory Bus

256bit

307.2GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

12

-

1024

Shading Units

960

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.08 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

76.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

4.874 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.437 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

152.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vega 12

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Vega 12 XLA

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.7 billion

Unknown

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.3

Shader Model

5.0

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