AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 670M 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 1536GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

624 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670M 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +62%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 670M

0.804 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 670M

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Mar 2012

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

7

960

Shading Units

336

48

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

24

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.372 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.49 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

803.7 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

66.98 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GF114

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

N13E-GS1-LP-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

332 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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