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    Radeon HD 6970M vs Radeon R7 M380

    If you are going to buy a new graphics card and are choosing between Radeon HD 6970M and Radeon R7 M380, there are a couple of things to consider. Cards with more VRAM in general perform better and allow you to play on higher graphics settings. Size also makes a difference. A model with a large heatsink can occupy up to three expansion slots on a motherboard. Be sure you have enough room in your PC case. When comparing GPUs with different architectures, more processing cores and even higher TFLOPS will not always translate to better performance. To help you decide which GPU you need, we have measured frame rates in a number of popular games. For more on how the Radeon HD 6970M stacks up against Radeon R7 M380, check out specs charts below.
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    Radeon HD 6970M and Radeon R7 M380 are Laptop Graphics Cards

    Note: Radeon HD 6970M and Radeon R7 M380 are only used in laptop graphics. They have lower GPU clock speed compared to the desktop variant, which results in lower power consumption, but also 10-30% lower gaming performance. Check available laptop models with Radeon HD 6970M or Radeon R7 M380 here:

    Radeon HD 6970M Laptops
    Radeon R7 M380 Laptops

    Main Specs

      Radeon HD 6970M Radeon R7 M380
    Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt
    Interface MXM-B (3.0) PCIe 3.0 x16
    Supplementary power connectors None
    Memory type GDDR5 DDR3
    Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
    Display Connectors No outputs No outputs
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    • Radeon HD 6970M is connected by MXM-B (3.0), and Radeon R7 M380 uses PCIe 3.0 x16 interface.
    • Radeon R7 M380 has 2 GB more memory, than Radeon HD 6970M.
    • Both cards are used in Laptops.
    • Radeon HD 6970M is build with Terascale 2 architecture, and Radeon R7 M380 - with GCN.
    • Core clock speed of Radeon R7 M380 is 235 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6970M.
    • Radeon HD 6970M is manufactured by 40 nm process technology, and Radeon R7 M380 - by 28 nm process technology.
    • Memory clock speed of Radeon R7 M380 is 100 MHz higher, than Radeon HD 6970M.

    Game benchmarks

    high / 1080p 10−12 6−7
    ultra / 1080p 6−7 4−5
    QHD / 1440p 1−2 0−1
    low / 720p 24−27 16−18
    medium / 1080p 14−16 8−9
    The average gaming FPS of Radeon HD 6970M in Assassin's Creed Odyssey is 55% more, than Radeon R7 M380.

    Full Specs

      Radeon HD 6970M Radeon R7 M380
    Architecture Terascale 2 GCN
    Code name Blackcomb XT Tropo
    Type Laptop Laptop
    Release date 6 January 2011 7 May 2015
    Pipelines 960 640
    Core clock speed 680 MHz 915 MHz
    Boost Clock 915 MHz
    Transistor count 1,700 million 1,500 million
    Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 28 nm
    Texture fill rate 32.64 36.60
    Floating-point performance 1,305.6 gflops 1,171 gflops
    Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
    Memory clock speed 900 MHz 1000 MHz
    Memory bandwidth 115.2 GB/s 32 GB/s
    Shared memory - -
    DirectX 11.2 (11_0)
    Shader Model 5.0 5.1
    OpenGL 4.4 4.4
    OpenCL 1.2 Not Listed
    Vulkan N/A
    FreeSync +
    Bus support PCIe 3.0
    Bitcoin / BTC (SHA256) 118 Mh/s
    Laptop size large medium sized
    Eyefinity +
    HD3D +
    PowerTune +
    DualGraphics +
    ZeroCore +
    Switchable graphics +
    Mantle +
    Compute units 10
    AppAcceleration +
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