Radeon HD 6970M and Radeon RX 550X Mobile - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6970M
Radeon RX 550X Mobile
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Polaris (2016−2019)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
Polaris 12
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
January 2019
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
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Boost clock speed
-
1287 MHz
Core clock speed
680 MHz
1176 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
2,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
640
Power consumption (TDP)
75-100 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
51.48
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
7000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
96 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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