AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock850MHz

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

0.544 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +140%

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M230 Rebrand

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Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 2014

Release Date

Aug 2011

Crystal System

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

780 MHz

Base Clock

-

850 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

12

-

320

Shading Units

960

20

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

128 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

17.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

544.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

34.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Sun

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Sun LE

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.69 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

56 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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