AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1230MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

3648 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q +768%

11.34 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 4070 Max Q

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Jan 2023

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

735 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1230 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

960

Shading Units

4608

48

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

59.04 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

177.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

11.34 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

11.34 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

177.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

AD106

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

GN21-X6

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

4 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

190 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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