Radeon RX 580 and Radeon HD 6970M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon RX 580 vs Radeon HD 6970M
Radeon RX 580
9140
Radeon HD 6970M
2338
Radeon RX 580
Radeon HD 6970M
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Polaris 20
Blackcomb XT
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2017
January 2011
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
None
Boost clock speed
1340 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1257 MHz
680 MHz
Floating-point performance
6,175 gflops
1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
960
Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
75-100 Watt
Texture fill rate
193.0
32.64
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
2.0
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
6.4
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A