GeForce 945M and Radeon HD 6970M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 945M vs Radeon HD 6970M
GeForce 945M
2171
Radeon HD 6970M
2338
GeForce 945M
Radeon HD 6970M
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GM107
Blackcomb XT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
March 2015
January 2011
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1045 MHz
-
Core clock speed
928 MHz
680 MHz
Floating-point performance
953.9 gflops
1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
512
960
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
75-100 Watt
Texture fill rate
40.80
32.64
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
GameWorks
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
Optimus
+
-