Radeon HD 6970M and GeForce GTS 450 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970M vs GeForce GTS 450
Radeon HD 6970M
2338
GeForce GTS 450
1359
Radeon HD 6970M
GeForce GTS 450
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
GF106
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
September 2010
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
680 MHz
783 MHz
CUDA cores
-
192
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
601.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
192
Power consumption (TDP)
75-100 Watt
106 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
100 °C
Texture fill rate
32.64
25.1 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1804 (3608 data rate) MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
57.7 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
Mini HDMITwo Dual Link DVI
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
Internal
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.2
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A