AMD Radeon HD 7870M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

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AMD Radeon HD 7870M AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Lower TDP (45W vs 75W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand 's Advantages

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870M

1.024 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand +25%

1.28 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M

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Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jan 2011

London

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

10

Compute Units

10

640

Shading Units

800

40

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

32.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1024 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1280 GFLOPS

64.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Heathrow

GPU Name

Broadway

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

GPU Variant

Broadway XT

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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