AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 860M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand 's Advantages

160 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock1085MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

1.28 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 860M +8%

1.389 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

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GeForce GTX 860M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2014

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1020 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1085 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/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

17.36 GPixel/s

32.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.40 GTexel/s

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1280 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1389 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

43.40 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Broadway

GPU Name

GM107

Broadway XT

GPU Variant

N15P-GX-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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