Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition
Iris Xe Graphics G7 80EUs
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Gen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)
GPU code name
Blackcomb
Tiger Lake Xe
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
August 2011
August 2020
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
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Supplementary power connectors
None
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Boost clock speed
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1350 MHz
Core clock speed
680 MHz
400 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
10 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
80
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
28 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
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Memory type
GDDR5
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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)
12_1
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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Quick Sync
-
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