GeForce GTX 480M SLI and Radeon HD 6970M - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 480M SLI
Radeon HD 6970M
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
N11E-GTX-A3
Blackcomb XT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
May 2010
January 2011
Interface
-
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
425 MHz
680 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
6000 Million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
704
960
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
75-100 Watt
Texture fill rate
-
32.64
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
115.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
-
No outputs
DirectX
11
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
-
1.2
OpenGL
-
4.4
Shader Model
-
5.0
Vulkan
-
N/A