AMD Radeon HD 7970M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970M +66%

2.176 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970M

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Radeon HD 6970M

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jan 2011

London

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

12

1280

Shading Units

960

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.176 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

136.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Wimbledon

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Wimbledon XT (216-0836036)

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

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