Radeon R6 Graphics IGP vs Radeon HD 7970 X2

Radeon R6 Graphics IGP
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 17 Sep 2014
Radeon R6 Graphics IGP
Radeon HD 7970 X2
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 31 Aug 2012
Radeon HD 7970 X2
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Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R6 Graphics IGP

485 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7970 X2 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7970 X2

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 7970 X2

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7970 X2

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R6 Graphics IGPRadeon HD 7970 X2
GPU NameSpectre ()vsNew Zealand ()
Fab Process28 nmvs28 nm
Die Size245 mm²vs365 mm²
Transistors2,410 millionvs4,313 million
Shaders384vs2048
Compute Units6vs32
Core clock533 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs8vs32
TMUs24vs128

Memory Configuration

Radeon R6 Graphics IGPRadeon HD 7970 X2
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs384 bit x2
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs3072 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R6 Graphics IGPRadeon HD 7970 X2
TDP15 wattsvs500 watts
Release Date17 Sep 2014vs31 Aug 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R6 Graphics IGP
    4.26 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 X2
    59.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R6 Graphics IGP
    12.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 X2
    236.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R6 Graphics IGP
    0.00 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 7970 X2
    528.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R6 Graphics IGP
    409.30 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 7970 X2
    7578.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better