Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition
GeForce RTX 3070 SUPER
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
Blackcomb
GA104
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2011
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Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 12-pin
Boost clock speed
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1695 MHz
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
8 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
18,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
6144
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
250 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
325.4
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
16 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
512.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
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DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
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Vulkan
N/A
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