GeForce 930MX vs Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce 930MX and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 930MX 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1020MHz
Lower TDP (17W vs 75W)
Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
576 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 930MX
783
Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition
+66%
1306
Graphics Card
Mar 2016
Release Date
Aug 2011
GeForce 900M
Generation
Vancouver
Mobile
Type
Mobile
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
952 MHz
Base Clock
-
1020 MHz
Boost Clock
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
14.40GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
384
Shading Units
960
24
TMUs
48
8
ROPs
32
64 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
8.160 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
21.76 GPixel/s
24.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
32.64 GTexel/s
783.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1306 GFLOPS
24.48 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
17W
TDP
75W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM108
GPU Name
Blackcomb
N16S-GMR
GPU Variant
Blackcomb XT
(216-0811000)
Maxwell
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
40 nm
Unknown
Transistors
1.7 billion
Unknown
Die Size
212 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.0
CUDA
-
5.1
Shader Model
5.0