AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

NVIDIA GeForce MX230

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 2GB VRAM GeForce MX230 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 48.06GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce MX230 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1531MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Lower TDP (10W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M +42%

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce MX230

0.784 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

GeForce MX230

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Feb 2019

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce MX

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1519 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1531 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

960

Shading Units

256

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

24.50 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.50 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

12.25 GFLOPS

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

783.9 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

24.50 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

10W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GP108

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

N17S-G0-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

74 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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