AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q 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 115W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1379MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q +407%

5.648 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

GeForce GTX 1070 Max Q

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2017

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 10 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1215 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.3GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

16

960

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

64

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

88.26 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

88.26 GFLOPS

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.648 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

176.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

115W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GP104

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

N17E-G2-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

314 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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