AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 48 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 48 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (402.4GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

2112 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 48 +464%

7.373 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 48

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Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Aug 2011

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

786 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

402.4GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

48

Compute Units

12

-

3072

Shading Units

960

192

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

76.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

230.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

14.75 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.373 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

460.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Vega 10 PRO

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

495 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

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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