AMD Radeon RX 5500M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon RX 5500M

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500M 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 RX 5500M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1645MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 85W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5500M +254%

4.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500M

VS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2019

Release Date

Aug 2011

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1375 MHz

Base Clock

-

1645 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

22

Compute Units

12

-

1408

Shading Units

960

88

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

52.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

144.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

9.265 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

289.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

85W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 14

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Navi 14 XTM

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

6.4 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

158 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

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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