AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 710M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GT 710M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 710M 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 1024GB)

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

864 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 710M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Lower TDP (15W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +338%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 710M

0.298 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GT 710M

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Jan 2013

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

960

Shading Units

96

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.100 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.40 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

297.6 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

24.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

15W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GF117

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

N14M-GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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