Radeon HD 6970M vs GeForce GTX 650
Summary
Radeon HD 6970M
110%
GeForce GTX 650
100%
Relative performance
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6970M |
| Around 10% higher average synthetic performance. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 650 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6970M
The Radeon HD 6970M is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 6970M | | GeForce GTX 650 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Blackcomb (Blackcomb XT) | vs | GK106 () |
| Fab Process | 40 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 212 mm² | vs | 221 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,700 million | vs | 2,540 million |
| Shaders | 960 | vs | 384 |
| Compute Units | 12 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 680 MHz | vs | 1058 MHz |
| ROPs | 32 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 48 | vs | 32 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 6970M | | GeForce GTX 650 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
3600 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 6970M | | GeForce GTX 650 | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 65 watts |
| Release Date | 4 Jan 2011 | vs | 27 Nov 2013 |
Radeon HD 6970M
21.76 GP/s
GeForce GTX 650
8.46 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6970M
32.60 GT/s
GeForce GTX 650
33.90 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon HD 6970M
115.20 GB/s
GeForce GTX 650
80.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon HD 6970M
1305.60 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 650
812.50 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better
Radeon HD 6970M
3190
GeForce GTX 650
2880
Points (higher is better)