NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M 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 GTX 260M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

848 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +324%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

VS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2009

Release Date

Aug 2011

GeForce 200M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

950 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

60.80GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

14

SM Count

-

112

Shading Units

960

56

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

30.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

308.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

65W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N10E-GT

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

324 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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