Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce 940M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970 vs GeForce 940M
Radeon HD 6970
2921
GeForce 940M
1156
Radeon HD 6970
GeForce 940M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Cayman
N16S-GT-S/B
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
December 2010
March 2015
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
-
Boost clock speed
880 MHz
1176 MHz
Core clock speed
-
1072 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,703.4 gflops
903.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
384
Power consumption (TDP)
550 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.48
28.22
Memory type
DDR5
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
14.4 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.1.126
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
GameWorks
-
+
GPU Boost
-
2.0
HD3D
-
-
Optimus
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-