AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs AMD Radeon HD 7490M

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M

AMD Radeon HD 7490M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7490M 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 30.40GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7490M 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Lower TDP (9W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M +335%

1.114 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7490M

0.256 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

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Radeon HD 7490M

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

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

950 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

30.40GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

2

-

960

Shading Units

160

48

TMUs

8

32

ROPs

4

-

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

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

256.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

9W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Seymour

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

Seymour XTX (216-0810005)

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

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

-

5.0

Shader Model

5.0

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