AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro M2000

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition AMD FirePro M2000

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM FirePro M2000 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

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

480 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro M2000 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (33W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +172%

1.306 TFLOPS

FirePro M2000

0.48 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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FirePro M2000

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Jul 2012

Vancouver

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

6

960

Shading Units

480

48

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Turks

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

Turks GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

33W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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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