AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6970
GPU · Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jun 2018
Dec 2010
Generation
Mobility Radeon
Northern Islands
Type
Mobile
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
1138 MHz
—
Boost Clock
1301 MHz
—
Memory Clock
800 MHz
1375 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
8GB
2GB
Memory Type
HBM2
GDDR5
Memory Bus
2048bit
256bit
Bandwidth
409.6GB/s
176.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
56
24
Shading Units
3584
1536
TMUs
224
96
ROPs
64
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
8 KB (per CU)
L2 Cache
4 MB
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
83.26 GPixel/s
28.16 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
291.4 GTexel/s
84.48 GTexel/s
FP16 (half)
18.65 TFLOPS
—
FP32 (float)
9.326 TFLOPS
2.703 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
582.8 GFLOPS
675.8 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Vega 10
Cayman
GPU Variant
Vega 10 XL(215-0894216)
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
Architecture
GCN 5.0
TeraScale 3
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
TSMC
Process Size
14 nm
40 nm
Transistors
12.5 billion
2.64 billion
Die Size
495 mm²
389 mm²
Board Design
TDP
120W
250W
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b3x DisplayPort 1.4a
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Power Connectors
None
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Suggested PSU
—
600 W
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
OpenCL
2.1
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
N/A
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.