AMD Radeon Pro W6600M vs AMD Radeon HD 8970M

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AMD Radeon Pro W6600M

AMD Radeon HD 8970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon Pro W6600M and 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Pro W6600M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 126% (2034MHz vs 900MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 4GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

512 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Pro W6600M +216%

7.29 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon Pro W6600M

VS

Radeon HD 8970M

Graphics Card

Jun 2021

Release Date

May 2013

Radeon Pro Mobile

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1224 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

2034 MHz

Boost Clock

900 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

20

66

SM Count

-

1792

Shading Units

1280

112

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

264

Tensor Cores

-

28

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

32 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

130.2 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.80 GPixel/s

227.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

72.00 GTexel/s

14.58 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.304 TFLOPS

455.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

144.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

100W

600 W

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 23

GPU Name

Neptune

Navi 23 WKS-XM

GPU Variant

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

11.06 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

237 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.1

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