Radeon HD 6750M Mac Edition vs Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6750M Mac Edition |
| 40 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6750M Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition | |
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| GPU Name | Whistler (Whistler PRO) | vs | Blackcomb (Blackcomb XT) |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 104 mm² | vs | 212 mm² |
| Transistors | 716 million | vs | 1,700 million |
| Shaders | 480 | vs | 960 |
| Compute Units | 6 | vs | 12 |
| Core clock | 598 MHz | vs | 680 MHz |
| ROPs | 8 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 24 | vs | 48 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6750M Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition | |
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| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 794 MHz
3176 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
3600 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6750M Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition | |
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| TDP | 35 watts | vs | 75 watts |
| Release Date | 18 Apr 2011 | vs | 25 Aug 2011 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better