NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile 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 RTX 4070 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

3648 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile +1096%

15.62 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

VS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2023

Release Date

Aug 2011

GeForce 40 Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1395 MHz

Base Clock

-

1695 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

36

SM Count

-

4608

Shading Units

960

144

TMUs

48

ROPs

32

144

Tensor Cores

-

36

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

32 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

81.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

244.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

15.62 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

15.62 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

244.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

115W

TDP

75W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

AD106

GPU Name

Blackcomb

GN21-X6

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Ada Lovelace

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

4 nm

Process Size

40 nm

Unknown

Transistors

1.7 billion

190 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

8.9

CUDA

-

6.7

Shader Model

5.0

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