AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA Quadro FX Go540

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

NVIDIA Quadro FX Go540

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX Go540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 7.200GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA Quadro FX Go540 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 50W)

Score

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

Quadro FX Go540

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Aug 2004

Vancouver

Generation

Quadro FX Go

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

225 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

128MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

7.200GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.200 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.400 GTexel/s

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

25W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

NV43

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

QDFX-GO540-N-A4

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Curie

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

110 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.146 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

154 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

4.4

OpenGL

2.0 (full) 2.1 (partial)

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

5.0

Shader Model

3.0

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