AMD Radeon HD 6990M vs AMD Radeon HD 8950M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6990M and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6990M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

352 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 8950M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 10 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6990M

1.602 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M +3%

1.651 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6990M

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Radeon HD 8950M

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

May 2013

Vancouver

Generation

Solar System

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

88.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

14

Compute Units

12

1120

Shading Units

768

56

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

22.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.20 GPixel/s

40.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

51.60 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

1.602 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.651 TFLOPS

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FP64 (double)

103.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Blackcomb

GPU Name

Saturn

Blackcomb XTX (216-0811030)

GPU Variant

Saturn XT

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

Board Design

100W

TDP

100W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

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

-

CUDA

-

5.0

Shader Model

6.3

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