NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GTS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9700M GTS 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 9700M GTS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

912 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9700M GTS

0.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +928%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 9700M GTS

VS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Aug 2011

GeForce 9M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

960

24

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.480 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

12.72 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

127.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

60W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Blackcomb

NB9E-GS

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

240 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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