AMD Radeon RX 6800M vs AMD Radeon HD 7970M

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6800M

AMD Radeon HD 7970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM Radeon RX 6800M 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 6800M 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock2390MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 153.6GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (100W vs 145W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6800M +462%

12.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

2.176 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6800M

VS

Radeon HD 7970M

Graphics Card

May 2021

Release Date

Apr 2012

Mobility Radeon

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

2116 MHz

Base Clock

-

2390 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

12GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

20

-

2560

Shading Units

1280

160

TMUs

80

64

ROPs

32

-

40

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

3 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

96 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

153.0 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

382.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

24.47 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

12.24 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.176 TFLOPS

764.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

136.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

145W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Navi 22

GPU Name

Wimbledon

Navi 22 XTM

GPU Variant

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

17.2 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

335 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

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.1

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