AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA P106M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

NVIDIA P106M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 4GB VRAM P106M 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 96.13GB/s)

NVIDIA P106M 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

P106M +127%

2.974 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

VS

P106M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2019

Vancouver

Generation

Mining GPUs

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.13GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

9

960

Shading Units

1152

48

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

41.31 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.95 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

46.48 GFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.974 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

92.95 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GP106

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

GP106-505-KC-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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