Radeon HD 6970M and GeForce GTX 460M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970M vs GeForce GTX 460M
Radeon HD 6970M
2338
GeForce GTX 460M
1283
Radeon HD 6970M
GeForce GTX 460M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
N11E-GS
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
September 2010
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
680 MHz
675 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
518.4 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
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
16.1 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
60.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 API with Feature Level 12.1
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A