NVIDIA GeForce 310M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 310M

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 310M 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

NVIDIA GeForce 310M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

944 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 310M

0.049 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +2565%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 310M

VS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2010

Release Date

Aug 2011

GeForce 300M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

667 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

10.67GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

960

8

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.424 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

4.848 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

48.96 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

14W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N11M-GE1

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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