AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v

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AMD Radeon HD 6970M ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 530v to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 9.600GB/s)

880 additional rendering cores

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 530v 's Advantages

Lower TDP (10W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M +1532%

1.306 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 530v

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

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Mobility Radeon HD 530v

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

May 2010

Vancouver

Generation

M9x

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

9.600GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

1

960

Shading Units

80

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.000 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

M92

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

10W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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