Radeon HD 6970M and GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6970M
GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Ada Lovelace
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
GN21-X6
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
January 2023
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
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Boost clock speed
-
2175 MHz
Core clock speed
680 MHz
1605 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
5 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
4608
Power consumption (TDP)
75-100 Watt
115 Watt (35 - 115 Watt TGP)
Texture fill rate
32.64
244.1
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
16000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
Portable Device Dependent
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
-
8.9
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
Shader Model
5.0
6.7
Vulkan
N/A
1.3