Radeon R9 M280X and Radeon HD 6970M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 M280X vs Radeon HD 6970M
Radeon R9 M280X
837
Radeon HD 6970M
2338
Radeon R9 M280X
Radeon HD 6970M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Saturn XT
Blackcomb XT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
February 2015
January 2011
Bus support
Not Listed
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
Core clock speed
900 MHz
680 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,792 gflops
1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,080 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
896
960
Power consumption (TDP)
-
75-100 Watt
Texture fill rate
61.60
32.64
Memory type
Not Listed
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
0 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
Not Listed
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
DirectX® 11
11.2 (11_0)
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
Not Listed
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
6.3
5.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-