Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and Radeon RX 560X Mobile - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition
Radeon RX 560X Mobile
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Blackcomb
Polaris 11
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
August 2011
January 2017
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
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Boost clock speed
-
1275 MHz
Core clock speed
680 MHz
1172 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
2,611 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
3,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
60-80 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
81.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
92.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_0)
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131
FreeSync
-
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