GeForce GTX 850M vs Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 850M |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Around 38% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 850M
The GeForce GTX 850M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 850M | | Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GM107 (N15P-GT-A1) | vs | Blackcomb (Blackcomb XT) |
| Fab Process | 28 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 148 mm² | vs | 212 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,870 million | vs | 1,700 million |
| Shaders | 640 | vs | 960 |
| Compute Units | 5 | vs | 12 |
| Core clock | 902 MHz | vs | 680 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 40 | vs | 48 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 850M | | Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1001 MHz
2002 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
3600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 850M | | Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition | |
|---|
| TDP | 45 watts | vs | 75 watts |
| Release Date | 12 Mar 2014 | vs | 25 Aug 2011 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better
Points (higher is better)