Radeon HD 6970 and GeForce GTX 860M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970 vs GeForce GTX 860M
Radeon HD 6970
2921
GeForce GTX 860M
3127
Radeon HD 6970
GeForce GTX 860M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Cayman
N15P-GX
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
December 2010
March 2014
Bus support
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCI Express 2.0, PCI Express 3.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
880 MHz
915 MHz
Core clock speed
-
797 MHz
CUDA cores
-
1152 or 640
Floating-point performance
2,703.4 gflops
1,389 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
2,640 million
1,870 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1536
640
Power consumption (TDP)
550 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
84.48
43.40
Memory type
DDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1375 MHz
Up to 2500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
-
80.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory configuration
-
GDDR5
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
No outputs
eDP 1.2 signal support
-
Up to 3840x2160
LVDS signal support
-
Up to 1920x1200
Eyefinity
1
-
VGA аnalog display support
-
Up to 2048x1536
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
-
Up to 3840x2160
HDCP content protection
-
+
HDMI
+
+
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
-
+
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
-
1.1.126
Ansel
-
+
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
Enduro
-
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
-
+
HD3D
-
-
Optimus
-
+
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
-
+
ZeroCore
-
-