Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition sales 25 August 2011. This is a desktop graphics card based on a TeraScale 2 architecture and made with 40 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 2 GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 3.6 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. No additional power connector is required, and 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 ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | TeraScale 2 (2009−2015) | |
| GPU code name | Blackcomb | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 25 August 2011 (13 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 cores | 960 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Core clock speed | 680 MHz | of 2610 MHz (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 1,700 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 40 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 75 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 32.64 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 1.306 gflops | of 96.77 (GeForce RTX TITAN Ada) |
| ROPs | 32 | of 192 (GA100) |
| TMUs | 48 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
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).
| Interface | MXM-B (3.0) | |
| Width | MXM Module | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None |
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 type | GDDR5 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 2 GB | of 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 3600 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 115.2 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
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 Connectors | No outputs |
API compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.2 (11_0) | |
| Shader Model | 5.0 | |
| OpenGL | 4.4 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition is GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448.
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