AMD Radeon RX 5700M vs AMD Radeon HD 6950M

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We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 5700M 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 RX 5700M 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1720MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 115.2GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

AMD Radeon HD 6950M 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5700M +611%

7.926 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950M

1.114 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 5700M

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Radeon HD 6950M

Graphics Card

Mar 2020

Release Date

Jan 2011

Mobility Radeon

Generation

Vancouver

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1465 MHz

Base Clock

-

1720 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

12

2304

Shading Units

960

144

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

8 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

110.1 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.56 GPixel/s

247.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

15.85 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.926 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1114 GFLOPS

495.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

Blackcomb

Navi 10 XML

GPU Variant

Blackcomb PRO

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

40 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

1.7 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

50W

-

Suggested PSU

-

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

No outputs

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

-

6.5

Shader Model

5.0

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