AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 160M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 160M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

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 +480%

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 160M

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

GeForce GTS 160M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Mar 2009

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 100M

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

1024MB

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

9.600 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

60W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

G94

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

N10E-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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