AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M

NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9650M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9650M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (29W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M +1292%

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce 9650M GS

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

GeForce 9650M GS

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Mar 2008

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 9M

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

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

960

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

5.000 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.00 GTexel/s

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

29W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

G84

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

NB9P-GS1-A2

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.289 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

169 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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