AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

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AMD Radeon RX 560X Mobile AMD Radeon HD 7970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 560X Mobile 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 RX 560X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Lower TDP (65W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 112.0GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 560X Mobile

2.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 560X Mobile

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Radeon HD 7970M

Graphics Card

Jan 2019

Release Date

Apr 2012

Mobility Radeon

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

20

896

Shading Units

1280

56

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

19.57 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

68.49 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

2.192 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

2.192 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

137.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 31

GPU Name

Wimbledon

Polaris 31 MXL

GPU Variant

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GCN 4.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

3 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

65W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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