AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7670M Rebrand

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition AMD Radeon HD 7670M Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7670M Rebrand 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

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7670M Rebrand 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (20W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +126%

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7670M Rebrand

0.576 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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Radeon HD 7670M Rebrand

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Jul 2012

Vancouver

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

6

960

Shading Units

480

48

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

576.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Whistler

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

Whistler XT (216-0810001)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

20W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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