AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3650 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

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

840 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +988%

1.306 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3650

0.12 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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Mobility Radeon HD 3650

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Jan 2008

Vancouver

Generation

M8x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

3

960

Shading Units

120

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

120.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

M86

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

M86-ME (216-0683013)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.378 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

135 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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