AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 310M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

NVIDIA GeForce 310M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 310M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)

944 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 310M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (14W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M +2565%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 310M

0.049 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

VS

GeForce 310M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2010

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 300M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

960

Shading Units

16

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.424 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.848 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

48.96 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

14W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GT218

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

N11M-GE1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.26 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

57 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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