AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs AMD FirePro M6100

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition AMD FirePro M6100

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM FirePro M6100 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

192 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro M6100 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 2 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

FirePro M6100 +26%

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

VS

FirePro M6100

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Oct 2013

Vancouver

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

12

960

Shading Units

768

48

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Saturn

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

Saturn XT GL (216-0843006)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

Unknown

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce MX450 30.5W 8Gbps vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

2

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6350A

3

AMD Radeon Pro WX 7130 Mobile vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

4

AMD Radeon HD 8670M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

5

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

6

NVIDIA GeForce GT 425M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

7

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 130M

8

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6650A

9

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 A230

10

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs Intel Arc A370M