AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M

NVIDIA GeForce 9800M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9800M 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 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 51.20GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 60W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M +555%

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce 9800M GS

0.17 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

GeForce 9800M GS

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Nov 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

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

51.20GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

960

Shading Units

64

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.480 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

16.96 GTexel/s

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

169.6 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

G94

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

NB9E-GS1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

240 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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