Radeon HD 6970M and GeForce GTX 480M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970M vs GeForce GTX 480M
Radeon HD 6970M
2338
GeForce GTX 480M
1666
Radeon HD 6970M
GeForce GTX 480M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
N11E-GTX-A3
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
May 2010
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
680 MHz
425 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
598.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
3,100 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
352
Power consumption (TDP)
75-100 Watt
100 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
18.7 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
76.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 API
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
4.5
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A