AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 250M 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 and 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (28W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M +444%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 250M

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

VS

GeForce GTS 250M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2009

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

960

Shading Units

96

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.00 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

28W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GT215

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

N10E-GE-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

144 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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