AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 6GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh 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 65W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

Boost Clock1560MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh +437%

5.99 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile Refresh

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2019

Vancouver

Generation

GeForce 20 Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1005 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1560 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

30

960

Shading Units

1920

48

TMUs

120

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

240

-

RT Cores

30

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

74.88 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

187.2 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

11.98 TFLOPS

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.990 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

187.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

65W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

TU106B

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

N18E-G1-KD-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

12 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

7.5

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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