Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition
Mobility Radeon HD 5850 Mac Edition
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Blackcomb
Broadway
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2011
January 2010
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
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Core clock speed
680 MHz
628 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
1,004.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
800
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
30 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
25.12
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
64 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.2 (11_0)
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A