AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980MX 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 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980MX 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980MX +200%

3.92 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

VS

GeForce GTX 980MX

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2016

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

1664

48

TMUs

104

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

75.39 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

148W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GM204

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

N16E-GXX-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

398 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

5.2

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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