AMD Radeon R5 M240 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M

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AMD Radeon R5 M240

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 M240 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R5 M240 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1030MHz

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

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

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R5 M240

0.659 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M +98%

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 M240

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Radeon HD 6970M

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jan 2011

Crystal System

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1030 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

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

8.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

20.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

659.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

41.20 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Jet

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Jet XT

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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