AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs AMD Radeon HD 7690M

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M

AMD Radeon HD 7690M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7690M 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 28.80GB/s)

480 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 7690M 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (20W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M +60%

1.114 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7690M

0.696 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

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Radeon HD 7690M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Dec 2011

Vancouver

Generation

London

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-A (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

6

-

960

Shading Units

480

48

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.60 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

17.40 GTexel/s

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

696.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Thames

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

Thames XT (216-0833000)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.716 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

104 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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