AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 940M

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce 940M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce 940M 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 940M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1098MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +16%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 940M

1.124 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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GeForce 940M

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Mar 2015

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1020 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1098 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.57 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.14 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1124 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

35.14 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GM107

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

N16S-GT1-KB-B

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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