AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 330M 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

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

912 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition +979%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 330M

0.121 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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GeForce GT 330M

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Jan 2010

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 300M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.600 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.200 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

121.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GT216

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

N11P-GE1-A3

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.486 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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