AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6320 IGP

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition and AMD Radeon HD 6320 IGP videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6320 IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition

Around 13% higher core clock speed: 680 MHz vs 600 MHz

Core clock speed	680 MHz vs 600 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 6320 IGP

4.2x lower typical power consumption: 18 Watt vs 75 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	18 Watt vs 75 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac Edition	AMD Radeon HD 6320 IGP
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale 2	TeraScale 2
Code name	Blackcomb	Loveland
Launch date	25 August 2011	15 August 2011
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	680 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,305.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	960
Texture fill rate	32.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt	18 Watt
Transistor count	1,700 million	450 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	11.2 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.4	4.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	115.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	3600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5