Radeon HD 6970M X2 vs Pro W6600

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	156	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	25.70	no data
Power efficiency	27.57	no data
Architecture	RDNA 2.0 (2020−2025)	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name	Navi 23	Blackcomb
Market segment	Workstation	Laptop
Release date	8 June 2021 (4 years ago)	4 January 2011 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$649	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices.

Performance to price scatter graph

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1792	960 ×2
Core clock speed	2331 MHz	680 MHz
Boost clock speed	2903 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	11,060 million	1,700 million
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	150 Watt
Texture fill rate	325.1	32.64 ×2
Floating-point processing power	10.4 TFLOPS	1.306 TFLOPS ×2
ROPs	64	32 ×2
TMUs	112	48 ×2
Ray Tracing Cores	28	no data
L0 Cache	448 KB	no data
L1 Cache	512 KB	96 KB
L2 Cache	2 MB	512 KB
L3 Cache	32 MB	no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	MXM-B (3.0)
Length	241 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR6	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB ×2
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit ×2
Memory clock speed	1750 MHz	900 MHz
Memory bandwidth	224.0 GB/s	115.2 GB/s ×2
Resizable BAR	+	-

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

4x DisplayPort

Portable Device Dependent

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12.0 Ultimate (12_2)	11.2 (11_0)
Shader Model	6.5	5.0
OpenGL	4.6	4.4
OpenCL	2.1	1.2
Vulkan	1.2	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	8 June 2021	4 January 2011
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	2 GB
Chip lithography	7 nm	40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	150 Watt