AMD Radeon E6460 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon E6460 AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon E6460 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

AMD Radeon E6460 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E6460

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +580%

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon E6460

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Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2011

Release Date

Aug 2011

Embedded

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

2

Compute Units

12

160

Shading Units

960

8

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

2.400 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

4.800 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Caicos

GPU Name

Blackcomb

E6460

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

67 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

25W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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