AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 260M 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 7 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTS 260M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (38W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M +321%

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce GTS 260M

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

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GeForce GTS 260M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2009

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 200M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

960

Shading Units

96

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.400 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.60 GTexel/s

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

38W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GT215

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

N10E-GS

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.727 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

144 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_1)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.2

5.0

Shader Model

4.1

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