AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M

ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 128MB VRAM Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 12.67GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon HD 6970M

VS

Mobility Radeon X1600 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Nov 2007

Vancouver

Generation

M5x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

396 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

12.67GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.592 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1.592 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

M56

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ultra-Threaded SE

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

90 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.157 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

150 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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