AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs AMD FirePro M5950

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M

AMD FirePro M5950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 1024MB VRAM FirePro M5950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro M5950 's Advantages

Lower TDP (35W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M +60%

1.114 TFLOPS

FirePro M5950

0.696 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

FirePro M5950

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2011

Vancouver

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

6

-

960

Shading Units

480

48

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.800 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.40 GTexel/s

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

696.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

35W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Whistler

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

Whistler XT GL

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

212 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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