NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS vs AMD Radeon HD 6850M

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NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

AMD Radeon HD 6850M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GTS and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6850M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

752 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9700M GTS

0.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850M +750%

1.08 TFLOPS

GeForce 9700M GTS

VS

Radeon HD 6850M

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 9M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

800

24

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.480 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.80 GPixel/s

12.72 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.00 GTexel/s

-

127.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1080 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Granville

NB9E-GS

GPU Variant

Granville PRO

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

166 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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