AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock800MHz

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +27%

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition

1.024 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R9 M370X Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

May 2015

Vancouver

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

775 MHz

-

Boost Clock

800 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

10

-

960

Shading Units

640

48

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1024 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

64.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Tropo

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

Tropo XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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