AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA NVS 4200M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 1024MB VRAM NVS 4200M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

912 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 4200M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M +737%

1.306 TFLOPS

NVS 4200M

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

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NVS 4200M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Feb 2011

Vancouver

Generation

NVS Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.620 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.480 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

155.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

12.96 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GF119

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

N12P-NS1-S-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

79 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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