AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 80.19GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1176MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M +35%

1.505 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

GeForce GTX 960M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Mar 2015

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 900M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1097 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

640

48

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.82 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

47.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GM107

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Maxwell

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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