AMD Radeon HD 6970M vs AMD Radeon E8950

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6970M

AMD Radeon E8950

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6970M and 8GB VRAM Radeon E8950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (75W vs 95W)

AMD Radeon E8950 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1088 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970M

1.306 TFLOPS

Radeon E8950 +213%

4.096 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970M

VS

Radeon E8950

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Sep 2015

Vancouver

Generation

Embedded

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

735 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

32

-

960

Shading Units

2048

48

TMUs

128

32

ROPs

32

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

21.76 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

32.64 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

4.096 TFLOPS

1306 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

256.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

75W

TDP

95W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Amethyst

Blackcomb XT (216-0811000)

GPU Variant

E8950

TeraScale 2

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

5 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

366 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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