AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs AMD Radeon HD 7470M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7470M 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)

800 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7470M 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Boost Clock800MHz

Lower TDP (25W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M +335%

1.114 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7470M

0.256 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

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Radeon HD 7470M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2012

Vancouver

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

750 MHz

-

Boost Clock

800 MHz

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

-

SM Count

-

12

Compute Units

2

960

Shading Units

160

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

256.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Seymour

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

Seymour XT (216-0810084)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

50W

TDP

25W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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