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
GPU 1
GPU 2
244
656
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
506
2270
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
3208
3349
Name AMD Radeon RX Vega 2 AMD Radeon HD 6970M
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

Essentials

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

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

DirectX 12.1 11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

Memory

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