AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 ES

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Blackcomb GF114
GPU variant Blackcomb XT (216-0811000) GF114-400-A1
Architecture TeraScale 2 Fermi 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 1,700 million 1,950 million
Die size 212 mm² 332 mm²

Mobile graphics

Release date Jan 4th, 2011
Generation Vancouver (HD 6900M)
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-B (3.0)
Predecessor Manhattan
Successor London

Clocks

GPU clock 680 MHz 779 MHz
Memory clock 900 MHz 3.6 Gbps effective 1002 MHz 4 Gbps effective
Shader clock 1557 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 1280 MB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 115.2 GB/s 128.3 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 960 336
TMUs 48 56
ROPs 32 32
Compute units 12
Cache L1 8 KB (per CU) 64 KB (per SM)
Cache L2 512 KB 512 KB
SM count 7

Performance

Pixel rate 21.76 GPixel/s 10.91 GPixel/s
Texture rate 32.64 GTexel/s 43.62 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 1,306 GFLOPS 1,046 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 87.19 GFLOPS (1:12)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width MXM Module Dual-slot
TDP 75 W 160 W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x mini-HDMI
Power connectors None 2x 6-pin
Board number C296 P1041 SKU 60
Length 210 mm 8.3 inches
Suggested PSU 450 W

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.4 4.6
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 5.0 5.1
CUDA 2.1

Other Features

Graphics Card

Release date Sep 24th, 2011
Generation GeForce 400
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 154 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 200
Successor GeForce 500

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