Radeon HD 6970M and GeForce 9800M GTX SLI - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6970M
GeForce 9800M GTX SLI
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
G9x (2007−2010)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
NB9E-GTX
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
July 2008
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
-
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
680 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
3016 Million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
224
Power consumption (TDP)
75-100 Watt
150 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
-
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
-
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
10
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
-
OpenGL
4.4
-
Shader Model
5.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
-