Radeon R9 M290X and Radeon HD 6970M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 M290X vs Radeon HD 6970M
Radeon R9 M290X
3360
Radeon HD 6970M
2338
Radeon R9 M290X
Radeon HD 6970M
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
Neptune
Blackcomb XT
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
January 2014
January 2011
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x16
-
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Compute units
20
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
680 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
1,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
960
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
75-100 Watt
Texture fill rate
72.00
32.64
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
115.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
Eyefinity
1
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
11.2 (11_0)
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
Not Listed
1.2
OpenGL
4.4
4.4
Shader Model
5.1
5.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-