AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile 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 150W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1734MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile +579%

8.878 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

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GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Aug 2016

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1556 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1734 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1251 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5X

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

320.3GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

20

960

Shading Units

2560

48

TMUs

160

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

111.0 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

277.4 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

138.7 GFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

8.878 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

277.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

150W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GP104

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

N17E-G3-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

314 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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