AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260M 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 2 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 60.80GB/s)

848 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +324%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260M

0.308 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 260M

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Mar 2009

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

60.80GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

14

960

Shading Units

112

48

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.800 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.80 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

308.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

65W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

G92

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

N10E-GT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

324 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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