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AMD Radeon HD 6970M

The AMD Radeon HD 6970M is a graphics card released on January 1, 2011. It has 2 GB of video memory and a 75 W board power rating. It scores 2,270 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.4.

4/10 key specs recorded · 15 facts

Depth: 23 recorded fields

Specification data last verified August 11, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark. Coverage: 4 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

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Shading units

n/a

Memory

2 GB

Boost clock

n/a

Board power

75 W

Performance

The AMD Radeon HD 6970M scores 2,270 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 68.5% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #909), measured across 3 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 656.

PassMark G3D Mark

2,270

Rank #909
Faster than 68.5% of 2,658 GPUs
3 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

As stated by PassMark

Category Mobile

Bus interface PCIe 2.1 x16

Max memory 2 GB

Core clock 680 MHz

Memory clock 900 MHz

DirectX 11

OpenGL 4.4

Max TDP 75 W

First benchmarked 2011-03-10

Samples 3

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the AMD Radeon HD 6970M states the PCIe 2.1 x16 interface, up to 2 GB of memory, a core clock of 680 MHz, DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.4, first benchmarked on 2011-03-10. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Memory

Size 2 GB

Type Not recorded

Bus width Not recorded

Bandwidth Not recorded

The AMD Radeon HD 6970M is equipped with 2 GB of memory.

Board and power

The AMD Radeon HD 6970M has a board power rating of 75 W and it connects over PCIe 2.1 x16.

Board power (TDP) 75 W

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 2.1 x16

Market

Launched January 1, 2011

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Desktop

Series Radeon HD

The AMD Radeon HD 6970M was released on January 1, 2011.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 2,270

PassMark G2D 656

Rank #909

Samples 3

Graphics and compute APIs

The AMD Radeon HD 6970M supports DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.4.

DirectX 11 (stated by PassMark)

OpenGL 4.4 (stated by PassMark)

CUDA is an NVIDIA technology and does not apply to the AMD Radeon HD 6970M. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the AMD Radeon HD 6970M. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the AMD Radeon HD 6970M.