AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand +1500%

1.28 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

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GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Oct 2008

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

32.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1280 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Broadway

GPU Name

G96C

Broadway XT

GPU Variant

NB9P-GS

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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