AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 705A

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

NVIDIA GeForce 705A

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 705A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

912 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 705A 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Lower TDP (15W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M +1335%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 705A

0.091 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

VS

GeForce 705A

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jul 2014

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 700A

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

1

960

Shading Units

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

950.0 MPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

3.800 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

91.20 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

7.600 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

15W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GF119

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

GF119 B1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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