AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 850A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock936MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (45W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand +6%

1.28 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 850A

1.198 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

VS

GeForce GTX 850A

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Mar 2014

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 800A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

902 MHz

-

Boost Clock

936 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

640

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

256 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

14.98 GPixel/s

32.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

37.44 GTexel/s

-

1280 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1198 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

37.44 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

45W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Broadway

GPU Name

GM107

Broadway XT

GPU Variant

N15P-GT-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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