NVIDIA GeForce MX250 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce MX250

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce MX250 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 MX250 's Advantages

Boost Clock1038MHz

Lower TDP (10W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce MX250

0.797 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +63%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce MX250

VS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Aug 2011

GeForce MX

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

937 MHz

Base Clock

-

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

3

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

960

24

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

24.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

12.46 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

797.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

24.91 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

10W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GP108B

GPU Name

Blackcomb

-

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 2

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

74 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

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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