AMD Radeon HD 6990M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

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AMD Radeon HD 6990M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990M and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 470M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6990M 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

832 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6990M +160%

1.602 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 470M

0.616 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990M

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GeForce GTX 470M

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Sep 2010

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

14

Compute Units

-

1120

Shading Units

288

56

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

22.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.420 GPixel/s

40.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.68 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.602 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

616.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

51.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GF104

Blackcomb XTX (216-0811030)

GPU Variant

N11E-GT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

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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