AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA P106M

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M NVIDIA P106M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 4GB VRAM P106M 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 96.13GB/s)

Lower TDP (50W vs 75W)

NVIDIA P106M 's Advantages

Released 8 years late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

192 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

P106M +166%

2.974 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

P106M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2019

Vancouver

Generation

Mining GPUs

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.13GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

9

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

1152

48

TMUs

72

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1280 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

41.31 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

92.95 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

46.48 GFLOPS

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.974 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

92.95 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

GP106

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

GP106-505-KC-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

16 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

4.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

75W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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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