AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 945M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

NVIDIA GeForce 945M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 945M 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 16.02GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 945M 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1189MHz

Lower TDP (23W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M +43%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 945M

0.913 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

VS

GeForce 945M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Apr 2016

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1006 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1189 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.512 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.54 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

913.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

28.54 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GM108

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

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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