AMD Radeon HD 6870M vs AMD Radeon HD 7590M

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AMD Radeon HD 6870M

AMD Radeon HD 7590M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7590M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7590M 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Lower TDP (18W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870M +87%

1.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7590M

0.576 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870M

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Radeon HD 7590M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2012

Vancouver

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

6

-

800

Shading Units

480

40

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

10.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

27.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

14.40 GTexel/s

-

1080 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

576.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

18W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Granville

GPU Name

Thames

Granville XT (216-0769024)

GPU Variant

Thames XT (216-0833000)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

104 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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