AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9650M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M +1436%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce 9650M GT

0.085 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

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GeForce 9650M GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Aug 2008

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.800 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

84.80 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

G96C

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

NB9P-GT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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