Radeon HD 6970 and Radeon Pro Vega 16 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970 vs Radeon Pro Vega 16
Radeon HD 6970
2921
Radeon Pro Vega 16
4953
Radeon HD 6970
Radeon Pro Vega 16
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name
Cayman
Vega Mobile
Market segment
Desktop
Mobile workstation
Release date
December 2010
November 2018
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
880 MHz
1190 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,703.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
550 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.48
76.16
Memory type
DDR5
HBM2
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
1024 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
2400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
307.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (12_1)
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.3
Vulkan
-
1.2.131
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-