NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS GDDR3 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9200M GS GDDR3

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM GeForce 9200M GS GDDR3 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 9200M GS GDDR3 's Advantages

Lower TDP (13W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 11.23GB/s)

952 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9200M GS GDDR3

0.02 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +6430%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 9200M GS GDDR3

VS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Aug 2011

GeForce 9M(9000M)

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

702 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

11.23GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

1

SM Count

-

8

Shading Units

960

4

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

16 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.116 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

2.116 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

20.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

13W

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G98

GPU Name

Blackcomb

G98-700-U2

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

UMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.21 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

80 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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