AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M
Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 and AMD Radeon HD 6970M videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, API support, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).
Differences
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX Vega 2
- Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 0 month(s) later
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 12 nm vs 40 nm
Launch date | 7 Jan 2018 vs 4 January 2011 |
Manufacturing process technology | 12 nm vs 40 nm |
Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6970M
- 7.5x more pipelines: 960 vs 128
- 2.7x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 656 vs 244
- 4.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2270 vs 506
- Around 4% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 3349 vs 3208
Specifications (specs) | |
Pipelines | 960 vs 128 |
Benchmarks | |
PassMark - G2D Mark | 656 vs 244 |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 2270 vs 506 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 3349 vs 3208 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX Vega 2
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 6970M
PassMark - G2D Mark |
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PassMark - G3D Mark |
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Geekbench - OpenCL |
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Name | AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 | AMD Radeon HD 6970M |
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PassMark - G2D Mark | 244 | 656 |
PassMark - G3D Mark | 506 | 2270 |
Geekbench - OpenCL | 3208 | 3349 |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) | 4.787 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) | 617.819 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) | 0.927 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) | 24.456 | |
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) | 117.801 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) | 3229 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) | 3342 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) | 3229 | |
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) | 3342 |
Compare specifications (specs)
AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 | AMD Radeon HD 6970M | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | Vega | TeraScale 2 |
Code name | Vega Raven Ridge | Blackcomb |
Launch date | 7 Jan 2018 | 4 January 2011 |
Place in performance rating | 958 | 778 |
Type | Laptop | Laptop |
Technical info |
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Boost clock speed | 1100 MHz | |
Manufacturing process technology | 12 nm | 40 nm |
Pipelines | 128 | 960 |
Transistor count | 4500 million | 1,700 million |
Core clock speed | 680 MHz | |
Floating-point performance | 1,305.6 gflops | |
Texture fill rate | 32.6 GTexel / s | |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 75 Watt | |
API support |
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DirectX | 12.1 | 11.2 (11_0) |
OpenGL | 4.4 | |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | No outputs | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | |
Laptop size | large | |
Supplementary power connectors | None | |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | |
Memory bandwidth | 115.2 GB / s | |
Memory bus width | 256 Bit | |
Memory clock speed | 3600 MHz | |
Memory type | GDDR5 | |
Shared memory | 0 |