Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition
Apple M3 Max 40-Core GPU
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
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GPU code name
Blackcomb
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Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
August 2011
October 2023
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
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Supplementary power connectors
None
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Core clock speed
680 MHz
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Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
40
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
53 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
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Memory type
GDDR5
LPDDR5-6400
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
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Display Connectors
No outputs
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DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
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OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.4
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Shader Model
5.0
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Vulkan
N/A
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