AMD Radeon HD 6970M Mac 2GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop 80W Full Specs

Summary

960 Shaders 680MHz	2,560 Shaders 2.06GHz
2GB GDDR5115.2GB/s	8GB GDDR6224GB/s
Peak·FP32·FP16 1.31 TFLOPS	Peak·FP32·FP16 10.52 TFLOPS
Form Factor MXM-B	Form Factor Soldered
TDP 75W	TDP 80W

Highlights

Peak OPS

Peak OPS FP32 FP16 Tensor FP4 FP4 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP8-16 FP8-16 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP8-32 FP8-32 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP16-16 FP16-16 Tensor Sparse Tensor FP16-32 FP16-32 Tensor Sparse FP64 BF16 Tensor BF16 BF16 Tensor Sparse Tensor TF32 Tensor INT8 Memory Bandwidth TDP

Radeon HD 6970M Mac 2GB1.31 TFLOPSFP32

x1

GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop 80W336.7 TFLOPSFP4 Tensor Sparse

x257.88

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Theoretical Performance

Clock Speed680MHz UC·Boost·OC	Clock Speed2055MHz UC·Base·Boost·OC
Peak OPS 1.31 TFLOPSFP32	Peak OPS 336.7 TFLOPSFP4 Tensor Sparse
-	Tensor FP4 168.3 TFLOPS FP4 Tensor Sparse 336.7 TFLOPS
-	Tensor FP8-16 84.17 TFLOPS FP8-16 Tensor Sparse 168.3 TFLOPS Tensor FP8-32 42.09 TFLOPS FP8-32 Tensor Sparse 84.17 TFLOPS
-	Tensor FP16-16 42.09 TFLOPS FP16-16 Tensor Sparse 84.17 TFLOPS Tensor FP16-32 21.04 TFLOPS FP16-32 Tensor Sparse 42.09 TFLOPS
-	BF16 10.52 TFLOPS Tensor BF16 21.04 TFLOPS BF16 Tensor Sparse 42.09 TFLOPS
Tensor TF32 -	Tensor TF32 10.52 TFLOPS
FP32 1.31 TFLOPS	FP32 10.52 TFLOPS
-	FP64 164.4 GFLOPS
-	Tensor INT8 84.17 TOPS
Ray -	Ray 31.91 TOPS
Pixel Rate 21.8 GPixel/s	Pixel Rate 65.8 GPixel/s
Texture Rate 32.6 GTexel/s	Texture Rate 164.4 GTexel/s

Core Config

Shaders 960 Shaders	Shaders 2,560 Shaders
TMUs 48 TMUs	TMUs 80 TMUs
ROPs 32 ROPs	ROPs 32 ROPs
Tensor Cores -	Tensor Cores 80 T-Cores
RT Cores -	RT Cores 20 RT-Cores
CUs 12 CUs	SMs 20 SMs

Clocks

Base Clock -	Base Clock 1.67GHz
Boost Clock 680MHz	Boost Clock 2.06GHz
Tensor Clock -	Tensor Clock 2.06GHz

Cache

L2 Cache 512KB shared

L2 Cache 32.8MB shared

Memory

2GB GDDR5	8GB GDDR6
Memory Bus 256-bit	Memory Bus 128-bit
Memory Speed 3.6GT/s	Memory Speed 14GT/s
Memory Bandwidth 115.2GB/s	Memory Bandwidth 224GB/s
ECC No	ECC No

Power & Thermals

TDP 75W

TDP 80W

Video Output

Multi-Monitor 2	Multi-Monitor 4
HDCP -	HDCP HDCP 2.3

Encoder

-	Encoder Model NVENC 9

Decoder

Decoder Model UVD 3.0

Decoder Model NVDEC 6

Card

Form Factor MXM-B

Form Factor Soldered

Chip

Manufacturer AMD	Manufacturer NVIDIA
Chip Designer AMD	Chip Designer NVIDIA
Architecture TeraScale 2	Architecture Blackwell
Family Radeon HD 6000	Family GeForce 50
Branding	Branding
Codename Barts	Codename NV197
Chip Variant Barts LE	Chip Variant -
Market Segment Laptop	Market Segment Laptop
Release Date Jan 4, 2011	Release Date Jun 24, 2025

Fabrication

Foundry TSMC	Foundry TSMC
Fabrication Node 40nm	Fabrication Node 4NP
Die Size 255mm²	Die Size -
Transistor Count 1.7 Billion	Transistor Count -
Transistor Density 6.67 MTr/mm²	Transistor Density -

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Used In

All-in-Ones iMac 27(Mid 2011)

All-in-Ones -

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