Radeon HD 6970M and GeForce GTX 670M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970M vs GeForce GTX 670M
Radeon HD 6970M
2338
GeForce GTX 670M
1788
Radeon HD 6970M
GeForce GTX 670M
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
N13E-GS1-LP
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
March 2012
Bus support
-
PCI Express 2.0
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
680 MHz
598 MHz
CUDA cores
-
336
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
803.7 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
1,950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
336
Power consumption (TDP)
75-100 Watt
75 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
33.5 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
3 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
72.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
HDMI
-
+
HDCP
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
Up to 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
Optimus
-
+