AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs AMD Radeon E8860

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M

AMD Radeon E8860

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 2GB VRAM Radeon E8860 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 72.00GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon E8860 's Advantages

Released 3 years late

Boost Clock625MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (37W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M +63%

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon E8860

0.8 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

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Radeon E8860

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2014

Vancouver

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

575 MHz

-

Boost Clock

625 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

10

-

960

Shading Units

640

48

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.00 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.00 GTexel/s

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

800.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

50.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

37W

-

No outputs

Outputs

1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Venus

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

Venus MCM

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

123 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1 (1.2)

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5 (5.1)

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