ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 110W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

0.422 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand +203%

1.28 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 X2

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Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

Graphics Card

Sep 2008

Release Date

Jan 2011

M8x

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

4

Compute Units

10

320

Shading Units

800

16

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

10.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

422.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1280 GFLOPS

84.48 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

M88

GPU Name

Broadway

-

GPU Variant

Broadway XT

TeraScale

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

110W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

N/A

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

5.0

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