Quadro K610M and Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition - video card comparison
Quadro K610M
Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition
Architecture
Kepler (2012−2018)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
GK208
Blackcomb
Market segment
Mobile workstation
Desktop
Release date
July 2013
August 2011
Interface
MXM-A (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
954 MHz
680 MHz
Floating-point performance
376.3 gflops
1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
915 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
960
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
15.68
32.64
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
2600 MHz
3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
20.8 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Display Port
1.2
-
DirectX
12
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.4
Shader Model
5
5.0
Vulkan
+
N/A
3D Vision Pro
+
-
Mosaic
+
-
nView Display Management
+
-
Optimus
+
-