AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs AMD Radeon RX 5500M

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AMD Radeon HD 6950M

AMD Radeon RX 5500M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 5500M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 85W)

AMD Radeon RX 5500M 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1645MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5500M +315%

4.632 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

Radeon RX 5500M

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Oct 2019

Vancouver

Generation

Mobility Radeon

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1375 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1645 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

224.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

22

-

960

Shading Units

1408

48

TMUs

88

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

52.64 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

144.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

9.265 TFLOPS

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.632 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

289.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

85W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Navi 14

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

Navi 14 XTM

TeraScale 2

Architecture

RDNA 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

7 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

6.4 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

158 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.5

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