AMD Radeon HD 6950M vs NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M and 8GB VRAM RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation 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 115W)

NVIDIA RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1695MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

3648 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation +1302%

15.62 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

VS

RTX 3000 Mobile Ada Generation

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Mar 2023

Vancouver

Generation

Quadro Ada-M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1395 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1695 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

36

960

Shading Units

4608

48

TMUs

144

32

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.36 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

244.1 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

15.62 TFLOPS

1114 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

15.62 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

244.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

50W

TDP

115W

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

AD106

Blackcomb PRO

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ada Lovelace

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

5 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

22.9 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

188 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.9

5.0

Shader Model

6.7

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