AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 640M LE 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 50.24GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (32W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M +351%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 640M LE

0.289 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

VS

GeForce GT 640M LE

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

May 2012

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 600M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

785 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

50.24GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

960

Shading Units

96

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.012 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.05 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

289.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

24.08 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

32W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GF108

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

116 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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