Radeon HD 6970M and GeForce 8600M GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970M vs GeForce 8600M GS
Radeon HD 6970M
2338
GeForce 8600M GS
72
Radeon HD 6970M
GeForce 8600M GS
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
G8x (2007−2008)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
G84M
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
June 2007
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Core clock speed
680 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
28.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
210 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
16
Power consumption (TDP)
75-100 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
3.600
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3, GDDR2
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A