AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 580M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M +37%

1.306 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580M

0.952 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

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GeForce GTX 580M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2011

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 500M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

64

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.920 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

39.68 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

952.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

79.36 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GF114

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

N12E-GTX2-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

100W

-

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

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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