AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro W4150M

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition AMD FirePro W4150M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM FirePro W4150M 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 64.00GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro W4150M 's Advantages

Boost Clock850MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +100%

1.306 TFLOPS

FirePro W4150M

0.652 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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FirePro W4150M

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Unknown

Vancouver

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

800 MHz

-

Boost Clock

850 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

6

960

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.800 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

652.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Mars

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

77 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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