AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 870M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock967MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.0GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

1.28 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 870M +103%

2.599 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

VS

GeForce GTX 870M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Mar 2014

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

941 MHz

-

Boost Clock

967 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

120.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

1344

40

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

256 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.08 GPixel/s

32.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

108.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1280 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.599 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

108.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Broadway

GPU Name

GK104

Broadway XT

GPU Variant

N15E-GT-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M

2

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand vs AMD Radeon HD 7750M

3

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand vs AMD Radeon R9 M385

4

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand vs AMD Radeon 530X Mobile

5

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand vs NVIDIA GeForce MX450 30.5W 10Gbps

6

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand vs NVIDIA GeForce MX150

7

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand vs NVIDIA RTX A5000 Max-Q

8

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand vs NVIDIA GeForce 405M

9

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand vs Intel Arc A530M

10

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand vs AMD Radeon Pro 575

Related News

1

New AMD Zen5 Ryzen 9000 Motherboards X870E/X870 to Adopt USB4! But You’ll Have to Wait Two More Months

2

Surpassing RTX 2050! Intel's Next-Gen Integrated Graphics Benchmark Closely Approaches AMD

3

New Benchmarks for AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Revealed: Single-Core Parity with R9 7945HX3D, Multi-Core Still Lower

4

X3D Performance Beyond Words! AMD Ryzen 7 9700X May Unlock Power Consumption: From 65W to 120W

5

First Benchmark Leak of Intel Core Ultra 7 268V: Single-Core Performance Soars by 20%, Still Lags Behind AMD

6

NVIDIA Grace CPU Benchmark Results Released, Stunning Performance

7

Minisforum Launches UM890 Pro Mini PC with R9 8945HS and Dual USB4 Ports

8

Does the Apple A18 Neural Engine Boast Superior Performance? Computational Power May Surpass M4 Chip

9

AMD's Commitment to Pioneering Each Generation with Cutting-Edge Process Technology and Continuous Innovation in Design, Packaging, and Assembly

10

NVIDIA to Ramp Up Orders and Add New Suppliers to Meet Explosive Demand for Blackwell Products