NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600M GS

0.069 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M +1792%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GS

VS

Radeon HD 6970M

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 9M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

4

SM Count

-

32

Shading Units

960

16

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.440 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

6.880 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

68.80 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

20W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G96C

GPU Name

Blackcomb

NB9P-GE2

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.314 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

121 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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