ATI Radeon 9800 PRO MAXX vs HD 6970M Rebrand

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)R300 (2005−2008)
GPU code nameBroadwayR350
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 January 2011 (13 years ago)no data

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 cores800no data
Core clock speed800 MHz380 MHz
Number of transistors1,040 million117 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt94 Watt
Texture fill rate32.003.040
Floating-point processing power1.28 TFLOPSno data
ROPs168
TMUs408

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).

InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)AGP 8x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x Molex

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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount1 GB128 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz680 MBps
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s21.76 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model5.0no data
OpenGL4.42.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 94 Watt

HD 6970M Rebrand has a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 275% more advanced lithography process, and 25.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand and Radeon 9800 PRO MAXX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand is a notebook card while Radeon 9800 PRO MAXX is a desktop one.


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