AMD Radeon HD 6530M vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6530M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6530M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (26W vs 100W)

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

368 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6530M

0.36 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +358%

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6530M

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Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

May 2013

Vancouver

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-II

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

5

Compute Units

12

400

Shading Units

768

20

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

3.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

9.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

360.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Capilano

GPU Name

Saturn

Capilano LE

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

104 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Board Design

26W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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