NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

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NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 8800M GTX and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 65W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 8800M GTX

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M +364%

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce 8800M GTX

VS

Radeon HD 6950M

Graphics Card

Nov 2007

Release Date

Jan 2011

GeForce 8M

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-HE

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

960

48

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.56 GPixel/s

24.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

240.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1114 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

65W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Blackcomb

NB8E-GTX-A2

GPU Variant

Blackcomb PRO

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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