FirePro M6000 and Radeon HD 6870M - video card comparison
FirePro M6000
Radeon HD 6870M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Heathrow
Granville-PRO
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Laptop
Release date
July 2012
January 2011
Bus support
n/a
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
750 MHz
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,024 gflops
1,080.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,500 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
800
Power consumption (TDP)
43 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.00
27.00
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
4500 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72 GB/s
64 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_1)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A
StereoOutput3D
1
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