NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +138%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

VS

Radeon HD 6950M

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 900M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

-

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

-

1280

Shading Units

960

80

TMUs

48

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.56 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1114 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Blackcomb PRO

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.0

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