AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 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

Lower TDP (75W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock1670MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +227%

4.275 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Aug 2016

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1404 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1670 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

10

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.16 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

133.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

66.80 GFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.275 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

133.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GP106

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

80W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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