NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 650M 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 GT 650M 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

Lower TDP (45W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 650M

0.73 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +78%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 650M

VS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Aug 2011

GeForce 600M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

835 MHz

Base Clock

-

950 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

12

384

Shading Units

960

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

7.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

30.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

729.6 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

30.40 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N13P-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Kepler

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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