AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce 720M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

NVIDIA GeForce 720M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 2GB VRAM GeForce 720M 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 12.80GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 720M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (33W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M +364%

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce 720M

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

GeForce 720M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Apr 2013

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 700M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

960

Shading Units

96

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.00 GTexel/s

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

20.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GF117

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

N14M-GE

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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