AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

VS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970M 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 8970M 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock900MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

320 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 100W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8970M +106%

2.304 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970M

VS

Radeon HD 6950M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Jan 2011

Solar System

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

900 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

20

Compute Units

12

1280

Shading Units

960

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.56 GPixel/s

72.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.304 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1114 GFLOPS

144.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Neptune

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Neptune XT (216-0847000)

GPU Variant

Blackcomb PRO

GCN 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

40 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

100W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.0

Related GPU Comparisons

1

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon E9550 MXM

2

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M

3

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD FirePro M4150

4

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 640M LE

5

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon RX 550X Mobile

6

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon Pro 575

7

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon E6760 MXM

8

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 415M

9

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs ATI Mobility FireGL V5600

10

AMD Radeon HD 8970M vs AMD Radeon HD 7670M

Related News

1

Only 3 Weeks Left! AMD Zen5 Launching Soon

2

Ilya Departs OpenAI to Launch New Company Aiming at Superintelligence!

3

Comprehensive Overview of AMD Ryzen 9000 Zen5 Desktop CPUs

4

Intel May Increase Base Frequencies for Arrow Lake-S / H / HX, High-End Chips to Reach 3GHz or Higher

5

It's 2024: This Company Released a Laptop Supporting DOS and Windows 95

6

AMD's Strix Halo Supports Up to 128GB Memory, Clearly Designed for AI Large Language Models

7

AMD to Launch Advanced Ryzen AI PRO Series Soon

8

Intel Delays Lunar Lake Shipment: Postponed from June to September

9

Initial Test Results of AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Revealed: IPC Improvement Meets Expectations

10

Elon Musk Responds to Nvidia’s Jensen Huang: Humanoid Robots Will Be Ten Times More Common than Cars