AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9300M GS 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

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 11.20GB/s)

952 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (13W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +5836%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 9300M GS

0.022 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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GeForce 9300M GS

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Jun 2008

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-I

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

11.20GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

8

48

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

22.40 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

G98

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

NB9M-GS

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

13W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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