AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1480MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q +190%

3.789 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2017

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1063 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1480 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

960

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

71.04 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

59.20 GFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

118.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GP106

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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