The AMD Mobility Radeon HD 6970M Crossfire (or sometimes called ATI Mobility Radeon HD 6970 X2) is a combination of two high-end graphics card for big and heavy laptops. Usually, each single card renders a single frame (AFR mode). Therefore, it may suffer from micro stuttering in low fps ranges of 30fps. This happens because of different timespans between two frames (e.g., irregular delays between sequential frames).
The HD 6970M is most likely based on the desktop HD 6850 graphics card. The codename of the mobile core is Blackcomb XT and it should have a similar power consumption as the GeForce GTX 480M. According to the roadmap ,the Blackcomb-based chips should feature the UVD3 video processor and Eyefinity+ support.
Radeon HD 6900M Series
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| Codename | Blackcomb XT | |||||||||||||||
| Architecture | Terascale 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Pipelines | 1920 - unified | |||||||||||||||
| Core Speed | 680 MHz | |||||||||||||||
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz | |||||||||||||||
| Memory Bus Width | 256 Bit | |||||||||||||||
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | |||||||||||||||
| Max. Amount of Memory | 2x2048 MB | |||||||||||||||
| Shared Memory | no | |||||||||||||||
| API | DirectX 11, Shader 5.0 | |||||||||||||||
| Transistor Count | 0 Billion | |||||||||||||||
| technology | 40 nm | |||||||||||||||
| Notebook Size | large | |||||||||||||||
| Date of Announcement | 06.01.2011 | |||||||||||||||
| Link to Manufacturer Page | www.amd.com | |||||||||||||||
- Average benchmark values for this graphics cardThe following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.
| low | med. | high | ultra | QHD | 4K | |
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| Crysis 2 | 190.5 | 134.4 | 103.6 | 43 | ||
| Call of Duty: Black Ops | 167.2 | 123.7 | 123.3 | 103 | ||
| Fifa 11 | 621 | 400.2 | 343.1 | 327 | ||
| Mafia 2 | 95.7 | 87.1 | 89.9 | 88 | ||
| StarCraft 2 | 329.4 | 114.2 | 99.1 | 85 | ||
| Metro 2033 | 137 | 121.9 | 94.4 | 36 | ||
| Battlefield: Bad Company 2 | 199.4 | 194.5 | 163.2 | 94 | ||
| CoD Modern Warfare 2 | 287 | 167.4 | 160.6 | 127 | ||
| Risen | 165.9 | 134.9 | 123.8 | 99 | ||
| Resident Evil 5 | 199.3 | 122.2 | 124 | |||
| Need for Speed Shift | 94.1 | 78.3 | 66 | |||
| Colin McRae: DIRT 2 | 195.5 | 163.3 | 142 | 83 | ||
| Anno 1404 | 207.1 | 143 | ||||
| F.E.A.R. 2 | 279 | 190 | 181.8 | 159 | ||
| Crysis - GPU Benchmark | 170.1 | 101.8 | 85.1 | 49 | ||
| Crysis - CPU Benchmark | 232.7 | 109.5 | 88.3 | 45 | ||
| < 30 fps < 60 fps < 120 fps ≥ 120 fps | 1 14 | 5 9 | 7 8 | 4 7 5 | | |
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