AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 64.00GB/s)

160 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

1.12 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

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Mobility Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2010

Vancouver

Generation

Manhattan

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

64.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

10

-

960

Shading Units

800

48

TMUs

40

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.20 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.00 GTexel/s

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1120 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Broadway

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

Broadway XT (216-0769008)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.04 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

166 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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