AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5080 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 175W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock2000MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (1.01TB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

7232 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile +2409%

32.77 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

VS

GeForce RTX 5080 Mobile

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Jan 2025

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 50 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1500 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2000 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

1.01TB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

64

960

Shading Units

8192

48

TMUs

256

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

256

-

RT Cores

64

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

192.0 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

512.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

32.77 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

32.77 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

512.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

175W

-

Suggested PSU

550 W

No outputs

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GB203

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

4 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

377 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

10.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.8

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