GeForce GTX 470M and Radeon HD 6950M - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 470M
Radeon HD 6950M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N11E-GT
Blackcomb Pro
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
November 2010
January 2011
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
535 MHz
580 MHz
Floating-point performance
616.3 gflops
1,113.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,950 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
288
960
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
19.7 billion/sec
27.84
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1250 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
60.0 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
12 API
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A