AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs AMD Radeon 530X Mobile

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M

AMD Radeon 530X Mobile

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 2GB VRAM Radeon 530X Mobile 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 36.00GB/s)

576 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon 530X Mobile 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock1024MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M +41%

1.114 TFLOPS

Radeon 530X Mobile

0.786 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

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Radeon 530X Mobile

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Apr 2017

Vancouver

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

730 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1024 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

36.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

6

-

960

Shading Units

384

48

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.192 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

24.58 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

786.4 GFLOPS

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

786.4 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

49.15 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

50W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Polaris 24

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

Polaris 24 XT (216-0867030)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

1.55 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

125 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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