Radeon HD 6970M and Radeon Vega 7 - video card comparison

Radeon HD 6970M

Radeon Vega 7

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

GCN 5.1 (2018−2021)

GPU code name

Blackcomb XT

Cezanne

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

January 2011

April 2021

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1900 MHz

Core clock speed

680 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,305.6 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

7 nm

Number of transistors

1,700 million

9,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

960

448

Power consumption (TDP)

75-100 Watt

45 Watt

Texture fill rate

32.64

53.20

Memory type

GDDR5

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

System Shared

Memory bus width

256 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

115.2 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (12_1)

OpenCL

1.2

2.1

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.0

6.4

Vulkan

N/A

1.2