AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 480M 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 1 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +118%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480M

0.598 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 480M

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

May 2010

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

11

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

352

48

TMUs

44

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.350 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.70 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

598.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

74.80 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GF100

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

N11E-GTX-A3

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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

2.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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