AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA NVS 5200M

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

NVIDIA NVS 5200M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 1024MB VRAM NVS 5200M 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 14.40GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA NVS 5200M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Lower TDP (25W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M +364%

1.114 TFLOPS

NVS 5200M

0.24 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

NVS 5200M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jun 2012

Vancouver

Generation

NVS Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

14.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

2

960

Shading Units

96

48

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.500 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.00 GTexel/s

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

20.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GF117

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

N13M-NS1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

116 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

2.1

5.0

Shader Model

5.1

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