AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs AMD Radeon RX 550X 640SP

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Blackcomb Baffin
GPU variant Blackcomb XT (216-0811000) Baffin LE
Architecture TeraScale 2 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Manufacturing process 40 nm 14 nm
Number of transistors 1,700 million 3,000 million
Die size 212 mm² 123 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Jan 4th, 2011
Generation Vancouver (HD 6900M)
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-B (3.0)
Predecessor Manhattan
Successor London

Clocks

GPU clock 680 MHz
Memory clock 900 MHz 3.6 Gbps effective 1500 MHz 6 Gbps effective
Base clock 1019 MHz
Boost clock 1071 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 2 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 115.2 GB/s 96.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 960 640
TMUs 48 40
ROPs 32 16
Compute units 12 10
Cache L1 8 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 512 KB 1024 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 21.76 GPixel/s 17.14 GPixel/s
Texture rate 32.64 GTexel/s 42.84 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 1,306 GFLOPS 1,371 GFLOPS
FP16 (half) performance 1,371 GFLOPS (1:1)
FP64 (double) performance 85.68 GFLOPS (1:16)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width MXM Module Dual-slot
TDP 75 W 60 W
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort
Power connectors None None
Board number C296 D090-21
Length 145 mm 5.7 inches
Suggested PSU 250 W

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan 1.2
Shader model 5.0 6.4

Other Features

Graphics Card

Release date Apr 11th, 2018
Generation Polaris
Production Active
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8
Predecessor Polaris
Successor Vega

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