AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600M 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

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

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

928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +1792%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GS

0.069 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 9600M GS

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Jun 2008

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

960

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.440 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.880 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

68.80 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

G96C

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

NB9P-GE2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

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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