AMD Radeon HD 8870M vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

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AMD Radeon HD 8870M

AMD Radeon HD 6950M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8870M and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6950M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8870M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

Boost Clock775MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 72.00GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8870M

0.992 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M +12%

1.114 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8870M

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Radeon HD 6950M

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Jan 2011

Solar System

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

725 MHz

Base Clock

-

775 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

12

-

640

Shading Units

960

40

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.56 GPixel/s

31.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

992.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1114 GFLOPS

62.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

50W

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Graphics Processor

Venus

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Venus XT (216-0846000)

GPU Variant

Blackcomb PRO

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1 (1.2)

OpenCL

1.2

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

6.5 (5.1)

Shader Model

5.0

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