AMD Radeon RX 550 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

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AMD Radeon RX 550 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon RX 550 Mobile and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 550 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1287MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand 's Advantages

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 550 Mobile +28%

1.647 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

1.28 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 550 Mobile

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Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

Jan 2011

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1100 MHz

Base Clock

-

1287 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

10

-

640

Shading Units

800

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

51.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

1.647 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.647 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1280 GFLOPS

103.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

Broadway

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

Broadway XT

GCN 4.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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