AMD Radeon HD 6870M vs AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6870M and AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies.

AMD Radeon HD 6870M

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6870M

Around 50% lower typical power consumption: 50 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt vs 75 Watt

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand

Around 19% higher core clock speed: 800 MHz vs 675 MHz
Around 19% higher texture fill rate: 32.0 GTexel / s vs 27 GTexel / s
Around 19% better floating-point performance: 1,280.0 gflops vs 1,080.0 gflops

Core clock speed	800 MHz vs 675 MHz
Texture fill rate	32.0 GTexel / s vs 27 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	1,280.0 gflops vs 1,080.0 gflops

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6870M	AMD Radeon HD 6970M Rebrand
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale 2
Code name	Granville	Broadway
Launch date	4 January 2011	4 January 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	675 MHz	800 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,080.0 gflops	1,280.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	800	800
Texture fill rate	27 GTexel / s	32.0 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	75 Watt
Transistor count	1,040 million	1,040 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	MXM-B (3.0)
Laptop size	large
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	64.0 GB / s	64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	4000 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5	GDDR5
Shared memory	0
Technologies
HDMI 1.3a