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

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

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and 16GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4090 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 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

8768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile +2425%

32.98 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

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GeForce RTX 4090 Mobile

Graphics Card

Aug 2011

Release Date

Jan 2023

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 40 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1335 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

16GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

576.0GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

76

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

9728

48

TMUs

304

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

304

-

RT Cores

76

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 MB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

189.8 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

515.3 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

32.98 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

32.98 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

515.3 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

AD103

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

GN21-X11

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

4 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

45.9 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

379 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

120W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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