Radeon HD 6970M and GeForce 940M - video card comparison

Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970M vs GeForce 940M

Radeon HD 6970M

2338

GeForce 940M

1156

Radeon HD 6970M

GeForce 940M

Architecture

Terascale 2 (2009−2015)

Maxwell (2014−2018)

GPU code name

Blackcomb XT

N16S-GT-S/B

Market segment

Laptop

Release date

January 2011

March 2015

Bus support

PCI Express 3.0

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1176 MHz

Core clock speed

680 MHz

1072 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,305.6 gflops

903.2 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

40 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,700 million

1,870 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

960

384

Power consumption (TDP)

75-100 Watt

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

32.64

28.22

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

115.2 GB/s

14.4 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

No outputs

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

OpenCL

1.2

OpenGL

4.4

4.5

Shader Model

5.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.1.126

GameWorks

GPU Boost

2.0

Optimus