AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X 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 R9 M280X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M280X +37%

1.792 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X

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Radeon HD 6970M

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Jan 2011

Gem System

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

12

896

Shading Units

960

56

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.76 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

32.64 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1306 GFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

GPU Variant

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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