AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6970 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6970

• Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 11 month(s) later
• 31.1x more texture fill rate: 84.5 GTexel / s vs 2.72 GTexel / s
• 38.4x more pipelines: 1536 vs 40
• 49.7x better floating-point performance: 2,703.4 gflops vs 54.4 gflops
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 55 nm
• 8x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 256 MB
• Around 72% higher memory clock speed: 1375 MHz vs 800 MHz
• 30.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2836 vs 93
• Around 72% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 429 vs 250

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

• 45.8x lower typical power consumption: 12 Watt vs 550 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon HD 6970
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470

PassMark - G3D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	2836 93
PassMark - G2D Mark	GPU 1 GPU 2	429 250

Compare specifications (specs)