AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile 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

Lower TDP (75W vs 110W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (432.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

6464 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile +1792%

24.72 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 4080 Mobile

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

1290 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

432.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

58

960

Shading Units

7424

48

TMUs

232

32

ROPs

80

-

Tensor Cores

232

-

RT Cores

58

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

133.2 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

386.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

24.72 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

24.72 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

386.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

110W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

AD104

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

GN21-X9

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

4 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

35.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

295 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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