AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 480M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 76.80GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M 's Advantages

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M +86%

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480M

0.598 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

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GeForce GTX 480M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

May 2010

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 400M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

76.80GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

11

960

Shading Units

352

48

TMUs

44

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.350 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

18.70 GTexel/s

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

598.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

74.80 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

100W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GF100

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

N11E-GTX-A3

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

2.0

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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