Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

AMD started Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition sales 25 August 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. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 0.9 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 115.2 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a graphics card attached via MXM-B (3.0) interface. Power consumption is at 75 Watt.

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code nameBlackcomb
Market segmentLaptop
Release date25 August 2011 (14 years ago)

Detailed specifications

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

Pipelines / CUDA cores960
Core clock speed680 MHzof 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI)
Number of transistors1,700 millionof 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100)
Manufacturing process technology40 nmof 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)75 Wattof 235 (FirePro S9150)
Texture fill rate32.64of 1,968 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Floating-point processing power1.306 TFLOPSof 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
ROPs32of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000)
TMUs48of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350)
L1 Cache192 KBof 64 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1550)
L2 Cache512 KBof 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition 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).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)
Supplementary power connectorsNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition: 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 amount2 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti)
Memory clock speed900 MHzof 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile)
Memory bandwidth115.2 GB/sof 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model5.0
OpenGL4.4of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell)
OpenCL1.2
VulkanN/A

Benchmark performance

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



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NVIDIA equivalent

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