Radeon HD 6970M and Radeon HD 4850 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 6970M vs Radeon HD 4850
Radeon HD 6970M
2338
Radeon HD 4850
1057
Radeon HD 6970M
Radeon HD 4850
Architecture
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
Terascale 1 (2008−2010)
GPU code name
Blackcomb XT
RV770
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
June 2008
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
680 MHz
625 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,305.6 gflops
1,000.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
1,700 million
956 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
960
800
Power consumption (TDP)
75-100 Watt
110 Watt
Texture fill rate
32.64
25.00
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
993 MHz
Memory bandwidth
115.2 GB/s
63.55 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
10.1 (10_1)
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A