AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs AMD Radeon R9 M280X

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

AMD Radeon R9 M280X

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X 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 88.00GB/s)

64 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon R9 M280X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X +60%

1.792 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

Radeon R9 M280X

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Feb 2015

Vancouver

Generation

Gem System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

900 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

14

-

960

Shading Units

896

48

TMUs

56

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

56.00 GTexel/s

-

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.792 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

112.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Saturn

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs AMD Radeon RX 6550M

2

AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5430

3

AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs AMD Radeon HD 8730A

4

AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs AMD Radeon RX 7800M

5

AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Mobile

6

AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce 920A

7

AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs Intel Arc A730M

8

AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA GeForce 710M

9

AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

10

AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs AMD Radeon R5 M230

Related News

1

Intel's Entry-Level CPU Core Ultra 3 205 Spotted: Only One Model Available

2

Introducing the AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX: A First Look at the Flagship Gaming Laptop CPU

3

AMD's Thunderous Strike: Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance Scores Revealed for the First Time!

4

Continuous Decline in DRAM Memory Prices: Downward Trend Intensifies

5

NVIDIA GB202 Chip Unveiled for the First Time, to be Used in RTX 5090 with 512-bit GDDR7 Memory

6

Strix Halo Integrated Graphics Score Appears on Passmark, Currently Slightly Below RTX 3060 12GB

7

AMD Unveils New RX 9070 XT Graphics Card Performance: Positioned Between RX 7900 GRE and RX 7900 XT

8

Double the Excitement! AMD FSR 4.0 to Launch Alongside RX 9070 XT Graphics Card

9

CPU-Z Minor Update: Support for Intel's Four New Products and New Memory

10

CXMT Reportedly Achieves 80% Yield in DDR5 Production