Radeon HD 6970M and Radeon RX Vega 7 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6970M
Radeon RX Vega 7
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Vega (2017−2021)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
Vega Raven Ridge
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
January 2020
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
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Supplementary power connectors
None
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Boost clock speed
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1800 MHz
Core clock speed
680 MHz
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Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
7 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
448
Power consumption (TDP)
75-100 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
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Memory type
GDDR5
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Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
900 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
No outputs
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DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12_1
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.4
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Shader Model
5.0
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Vulkan
N/A
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