Radeon HD 6970M and Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5) - video card comparison
Radeon HD 6970M
Maxwell GPU Surface Book (940M, GDDR5)
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Maxwell (2014−2018)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
Surface Book
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2011
October 2015
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
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Supplementary power connectors
None
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Boost clock speed
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993 MHz
Core clock speed
680 MHz
954 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
384
Power consumption (TDP)
75-100 Watt
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Texture fill rate
32.64
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Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
5012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
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Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
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DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX 12 (FL 11_0), Shader 5.0
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.2
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OpenGL
4.4
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Shader Model
5.0
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Vulkan
N/A
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Optimus
-
+