NVIDIA NVS 5400M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA NVS 5400M

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM NVS 5400M 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 NVS 5400M 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

NVS 5400M

0.253 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +416%

1.306 TFLOPS

NVS 5400M

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Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2012

Release Date

Aug 2011

NVS Mobile

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

2

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

960

16

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

32

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.640 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

10.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

253.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

21.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GF108

GPU Name

Blackcomb

N13P-NS1

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

Fermi

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.585 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

116 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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