AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 870M
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Dec 2010
Mar 2014
Generation
Northern Islands
GeForce 800M
Type
Desktop
Mobile
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-B (3.0)
Clock Speeds
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
1250 MHz
Base Clock
-
941 MHz
Boost Clock
-
967 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
2GB
3GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Bus
256bit
192bit
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
120.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
24
-
Shading Units
1536
1344
TMUs
96
112
ROPs
32
24
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
16 KB (per SMX)
L2 Cache
512 KB
384 KB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
27.08 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
108.3 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
2.599 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
108.3 GFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Cayman
GK104
GPU Variant
Cayman XT(215-0807007)
N15E-GT-A2
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Kepler
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
40 nm
28 nm
Transistors
2.64 billion
3.54 billion
Die Size
389 mm²
294 mm²
Board Design
TDP
250W
100W
Suggested PSU
600 W
-
Outputs
2x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
No outputs
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
None
Graphics Features
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
12 (11_0)
OpenGL
4.4
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
Shader Model
5.0
5.1
CUDA
-
3.0