NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M vs AMD Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M AMD Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1038MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (120.3GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

880 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970M +453%

2.657 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition

0.48 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970M

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Radeon HD 6570M Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2014

Release Date

Oct 2009

GeForce 900M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

924 MHz

Base Clock

-

1038 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1253 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

120.3GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

5

1280

Shading Units

400

80

TMUs

20

48

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

49.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

83.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.657 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

480.0 GFLOPS

83.04 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

Capilano

N16E-GT-A2

GPU Variant

Capilano XT

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.627 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

30W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

-

6.7 (6.4)

Shader Model

5.0

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