Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and Switch GPU - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition
Switch GPU
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
Blackcomb
GM20B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
August 2011
March 2017
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
-
768 MHz
Core clock speed
680 MHz
-
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
20 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
2,000 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
256
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
15 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
12.29
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
3600 MHz
3200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
-
5.3
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.126