Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 9.12% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.

Summary

AMD started Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire sales 6 January 2011. This is a laptop graphics card based on a Terascale 2 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamers. 2x2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 900 GHz are supplied.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking477
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureTerascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameBlackcomb XT
Market segmentLaptop
Release date6 January 2011 (13 years ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores1920of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed680 MHzof 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT)
Number of transistors2x1700 Millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelarge

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.

Memory typeGDDR5
Maximum RAM amount2x2 GBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed900 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Shared memory-

API compatibility

APIs supported by Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

HD 6970M Crossfire 9.12

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

HD 6970M Crossfire 5542

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

HD 6970M Crossfire 22667

Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

900p94
Full HD101

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Cyberpunk 2077 14−16

Full HD
Medium Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 21−24
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 12−14
Battlefield 5 27−30
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 18−20
Cyberpunk 2077 14−16
Far Cry 5 21−24
Far Cry New Dawn 24−27
Forza Horizon 4 60−65
Hitman 3 16−18
Horizon Zero Dawn 50−55
Metro Exodus 27−30
Red Dead Redemption 2 24−27
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 30−33
Watch Dogs: Legion 60−65

Full HD
High Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 21−24
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 12−14
Battlefield 5 27−30
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 18−20
Cyberpunk 2077 14−16
Far Cry 5 21−24
Far Cry New Dawn 24−27
Forza Horizon 4 60−65
Hitman 3 16−18
Horizon Zero Dawn 50−55
Metro Exodus 27−30
Red Dead Redemption 2 24−27
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 30−33
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 24−27
Watch Dogs: Legion 60−65

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 21−24
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 12−14
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 18−20
Cyberpunk 2077 14−16
Far Cry 5 21−24
Forza Horizon 4 60−65
Hitman 3 16−18
Horizon Zero Dawn 50−55
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 30−33
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 24−27
Watch Dogs: Legion 60−65

Full HD
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 24−27

1440p
High Preset

Battlefield 5 18−20
Far Cry New Dawn 14−16

1440p
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 9−10
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 5−6
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 9−10
Cyberpunk 2077 4−5
Far Cry 5 10−11
Forza Horizon 4 35−40
Hitman 3 12−14
Horizon Zero Dawn 18−20
Metro Exodus 12−14
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 10−11
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 8−9
Watch Dogs: Legion 55−60

1440p
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 14−16

4K
High Preset

Battlefield 5 8−9
Far Cry New Dawn 6−7
Hitman 3 5−6
Horizon Zero Dawn 35−40
Metro Exodus 7−8
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 6−7

4K
Ultra Preset

Assassin's Creed Odyssey 5−6
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 4−5
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4−5
Cyberpunk 2077 1−2
Far Cry 5 5−6
Forza Horizon 4 10−12
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 5−6
Watch Dogs: Legion 3−4

4K
Epic Preset

Red Dead Redemption 2 9−10

Closest competitors

Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire's performance relative to its closest rivals among notebook graphics cards.


NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire is GeForce GTX 485M SLI, which is faster by 1% and higher by 1 position in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire:

GeForce MX450 106.14
Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire 100

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Community ratings

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