AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 880M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 122W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 880M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock993MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 880M +133%

3.05 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

VS

GeForce GTX 880M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Mar 2014

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

954 MHz

-

Boost Clock

993 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

1536

48

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.78 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

127.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.050 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

127.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GK104

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

N15E-GX-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

122W

-

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

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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