AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

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AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X

AMD Radeon HD 7970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Pro Vega 64X and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1468MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

2816 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro Vega 64X +452%

12.03 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro Vega 64X

VS

Radeon HD 7970M

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Apr 2012

Radeon Pro Mac

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1250 MHz

Base Clock

-

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR5

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

512.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

64

Compute Units

20

-

4096

Shading Units

1280

256

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

93.95 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

375.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

24.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.03 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

751.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

250W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

Wimbledon

Vega 10 XT (215-0894200)

GPU Variant

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GCN 5.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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