Radeon HD 6970M and GeForce 8800 GTS 512 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970M vs GeForce 8800 GTS 512
Radeon HD 6970M
2338
GeForce 8800 GTS 512
585
Radeon HD 6970M
GeForce 8800 GTS 512
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
G92
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
December 2007
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
680 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
416.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
128
Power consumption (TDP)
75-100 Watt
135 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
41.60
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1640 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
52.48 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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