AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs AMD Radeon RX 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
Generation London (HD 7900M)
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-B (3.0)
Predecessor Vancouver
Successor Solar System

Clocks

GPU clock 850 MHz
Memory clock 1200 MHz 4.8 Gbps effective 1750 MHz 7 Gbps effective
Base clock 1175 MHz
Boost clock 1275 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 2 GB 4 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 153.6 GB/s 112.0 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 20.40 GPixel/s
Texture rate 68.00 GTexel/s 81.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 2.176 TFLOPS 2.611 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 136.0 GFLOPS (1:16) 163.2 GFLOPS (1:16)
FP16 (half) performance 2.611 TFLOPS (1:1)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width MXM Module Dual-slot
TDP 100 W 75 W
Outputs No outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort
Power connectors None None
Board number C429 C994
Length 170 mm 6.7 inches
Suggested PSU 250 W

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

Graphics Card

Release date Apr 18th, 2017
Generation Polaris
Production Active
Launch price 99 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x8
Predecessor Arctic Islands
Successor Vega

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