AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs AMD Radeon Pro 560

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Wimbledon Polaris 21
GPU variant Wimbledon XT (216-0836036) Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)
Architecture GCN 1.0 GCN 4.0
Foundry TSMC GlobalFoundries
Manufacturing process 28 nm 14 nm
Number of transistors 2,800 million 3,000 million
Die size 212 mm² 123 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Apr 24th, 2012 Apr 18th, 2017
Generation London (HD 7900M) Radeon Pro Mac (500 Series)
Production End-of-life Active
Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x8
Predecessor Vancouver
Successor Solar System

Clocks

GPU clock 850 MHz 907 MHz
Memory clock 1200 MHz 4.8 Gbps effective 1270 MHz 5.1 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 2 GB 4 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 153.6 GB/s 81.28 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 1280 1024
TMUs 80 64
ROPs 32 16
Compute units 20 16
Cache L1 16 KB (per CU) 16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 512 KB 1024 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 27.20 GPixel/s 14.51 GPixel/s
Texture rate 68.00 GTexel/s 58.05 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 2.176 TFLOPS 1.858 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 136.0 GFLOPS (1:16) 116.1 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (half) performance 1.858 TFLOPS (1:1)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width MXM Module IGP
TDP 100 W 75 W
Outputs No outputs No outputs
Power connectors None None
Board number C429

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (11_1) 12 (12_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 2.1
Vulkan 1.2 1.2
Shader model 5.1 6.4

Other Features

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