AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce 840M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

NVIDIA GeForce 840M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 2GB VRAM GeForce 840M 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 16.02GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 840M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1124MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (33W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M +29%

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce 840M

0.863 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

GeForce 840M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Mar 2014

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 800M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1029 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1124 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1001 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

16.02GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.992 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.98 GTexel/s

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

863.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

26.98 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

33W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GM108

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

N15S-GT

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

Unknown

212 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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