Radeon E9260 PCIe vs HD 6970M

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking590not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency5.38no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code nameBlackcombBaffin
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date4 January 2011 (13 years ago)27 September 2016 (8 years ago)

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 cores960896
Core clock speed680 MHz1090 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1200 MHz
Number of transistors1,700 million3,000 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt80 Watt
Texture fill rate32.6457.60
Floating-point processing power1.306 TFLOPS2.15 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs4848

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
InterfaceMXM-B (3.0)PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount1 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth115.2 GB/s112.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 outputsNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.06.4
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.22.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 January 2011 27 September 2016
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 80 Watt

HD 6970M has 6.7% lower power consumption.

E9260 PCIe, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 5 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 185.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6970M and Radeon E9260 PCIe. We've got no test results to judge.


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