AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 80W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1670MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile +283%

4.275 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Aug 2016

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1404 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1670 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

10

960

Shading Units

1280

48

TMUs

80

32

ROPs

48

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

80.16 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

133.6 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

66.80 GFLOPS

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.275 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

133.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

80W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GP106

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

N17E-G1-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.0

Shader Model

6.4

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