AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce MX150

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce MX150

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX150 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX150 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1532MHz

Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +10%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce MX150

1.177 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

VS

GeForce MX150

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

May 2017

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1532 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

960

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.51 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.77 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

18.38 GFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1177 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

36.77 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GP108

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

GP108-650-A1 (N17S-G1-A1)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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